Messi: I Feel Pain Because Africa Lose Every Game...180 Children!!

I join Aspire Academy to save thousands of lives small victims of the dreaded disease

Football star global Lionel Messi reaches in the eleventh Thursday morning, to the city of Sally on after an hour and a half from the Senegalese capital Dakar, to participate in the inauguration of the project joint campaign with the Academy for country Sports Excellence "Aspire" to combat malaria in the African continent through Football.

The campaign comes in the framework of coordination between the charity that bears the name Barcelona star Lionel Messi and giant sports academy which manages a spherically humanitarian project in ten African countries, the World Scout program within its own which carries the slogan "Aspire  ... dreams of football."

Include the task of charming Argentine Messi, visit a branch Aspire Academy in Sally morning, then a joint news conference with Sheikh Faisal Bin Ahmad supervisor of the new year on the Aspire Academy, to talk about the details of the project and to clarify how to provide support and support his foundation with Aspire in a project to fight malaria through football, which aims to reduce the spread of the disease in the African continent.

In his Speaking before the upcoming visit to Senegal, the star Messi said "I know that my trip to Senegal will be tough because I'll see the suffering caused by malaria, but I realize that we have a tremendous opportunity to exploit the power and influence of football in helping to save lives  ... every 90 minutes, dies180 children life because of this dreaded disease in Africa, but it is possible to avoid injury all those almost through the net that prove the family (mosquito nets) .. Football struggling malaria through a very special for me because I know it will help save thousands of lives small, and I'm happy to participate and give my support for it. "

The project, which is supported by football federations in several African countries, and the number of the stars of the ball prominent as well as pharmaceutical companies major distribution ASPIRE 400 thousand mosquito mosquitoes as a down payment in the last ten African countries covered by the draft "Aspire dreams of football now," to be carried out increase the number to a million nets each year throughout the African continent.

The initiative also includes the appointment of a doctor in every city of the cities covered by the project to detect and control the symptoms of malaria in the players and their families involved in the Scout program, and provide the necessary medicines to treat any cases discovered her.

The nets are the most effective preventive method to spread widely, with contraction of the incidence of malaria by up to 95% in certain areas. Note that of the 650 million people are exposed to the disease in Africa, has 125 million people, only those nets.

The project supports the "fight against malaria through football," the national program to combat malaria (PNLP) already in place in Senegal and Africa, with the aim of eliminating the disease across the continent.

Ivan Bravo, Director General of the Academy of Aspire Said "It was great to be Lionel (Messi) eager to fight malaria through football. His Visit to Senegal will really spread the message to children and their families in Africa, stating that it is possible to avoid malaria by mosquito nets. Program ASPIRE Football Dreams 400 thousand mosquito nets will be distributed initially and will be to increase the number to one million annually in the nets throughout Africa. Our 86 coordinator in Senegal alone would head the management of the distribution of mosquito nets and visiting families to make sure they use them properly. "

"Our goal is to exploit the effect of football to combat this dreaded disease, but we will work closely with the local medical devices mechanism to ensure the provision of necessary medicines as soon as possible when you see the symptoms of malaria in the villages covered by the project."

The health minister, the Senegalese Eva Marie Coll - Sik said "campaign Aspire Academy to combat malaria through football is a campaign innovative deserves all the praise. Cohesion among all sectors of society is necessary to put an end to the victims of malaria, especially because disease can be prevented and cured."

Also Swiss Joseph Blatter pledged, president of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) has already supported malaria control, and that, along with many of the stars of the ball prominent among them Cameroonian Roger Milla and Ivorian Kolo Toure and Didier Drogba and Ghana's Michael Essien and financial Frederic Kanoute and American Landon Donovan.