Home Football πŽπ…π…πˆπ‚πˆπ€π‹: Vinicius Jr Earns Socrates Award, Honoring the Brazilian Icon Socrates, for His Exceptional Humanitarian Contributions

πŽπ…π…πˆπ‚πˆπ€π‹: Vinicius Jr Earns Socrates Award, Honoring the Brazilian Icon Socrates, for His Exceptional Humanitarian Contributions

Football — 10/31/2023

The soccer star for Real Madrid was honored for the charitable work done by his foundation, which assists disadvantaged children in Brazil, the country in which he was born.

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The Socrates Award, which was presented at the 2023 Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris, was won by Vinicius Junior of Real Madrid.

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This award was given to the 23-year-old guy in recognition of his work in the humanitarian sector. Vinicius’s organization, the Vini.Jr Institute, gives financial support to a Brazilian educational software program that targets children from low-income families.

Using the app, children get access to a variety of free educational tools. It is anticipated that his personal contribution to the organization will exceed $1 million this year and will reach $2.5 million by the year 2024.

Didier Drogba, one of the co-hosts of the awards ceremony in Paris, made the statement that one of the factors that went into the decision to award Vinicius the Socrates grant was the fact that he has an openly anti-racist viewpoint. After being subjected to racial and anti-gay insults on many occasions in Spain, the Brazilian athlete has made use of his position to bring more attention to the problem.

This honor was bestowed in remembrance of the Brazilian star who went away in the year 2011. The first-ever Socrates Awards were presented at the Ballon d’Or ceremony in 2022, which took place the year before.

The first player to win the award was Sadio ManΓ©, a forward from Senegal who had recently moved to Bayern Munich from Liverpool. ManΓ© is very involved in a number of different philanthropic activities in Senegal, his home country.

He continues to provide a sizeable portion of his income to charitable causes in his hometown of Bambali, where he was born and raised. ManΓ© is responsible for providing financial support for a variety of educational and healthcare endeavors, in addition to a hospital and a school.

In addition to Sadio ManΓ©, Vinicius Jr. is a member of the select yet illustrious group of individuals who have been awarded the Socrates Prize.