{"id":125911,"date":"2026-10-14T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=125911"},"modified":"2026-10-14T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:07:07","slug":"via-coverciano-unity-euro-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/via-coverciano-unity-euro-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Unity Euro Cup dedicated to refugees in football kicks off in Coverciano."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>COVERCIANO<\/strong> The Unity Euro Cup 2026 kicks off tomorrow at the Federal Technical Center in Coverciano, a tournament organized by UEFA in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, dedicated to refugees and host communities. The event, held for the first time in Italy, celebrates football as a tool for social inclusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The fifth edition features 22 teams of 11 players each: seven refugees and four representatives of host communities, with at least three women per team. Matches are played seven-a-side. The Italian team, with athletes from various countries including Mali, Afghanistan, and Cameroon, has participated in all previous editions, achieving its best finish of third place in 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The participating teams come from 21 European countries, including Albania, Austria, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland, as well as a representative from the European Union. The tournament will be held in a group format, as the number of participants is the highest ever, approximately 400 people including athletes and staff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">L&#8217;Italia esordir\u00e0 affrontando Polonia, Armenia e Malta gioved\u00ec mattina, mentre la finale \u00e8 prevista per le 17:30 dello stesso giorno, seguita dalle premiazioni.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read also<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/atalanta-verso-lesordio-in-conference-league-con-il-pafos-sarri-predica-umilta\/\">Atalanta prepare for their Conference League debut against Pafos, Sarri preaches humility<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/totti-esclude-ritorno-roma-elogia\/\">Totti rules out a return to Roma but praises the team and Gasperini<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/champions-league-inter-napoli-mirano\/\">Champions League: Inter and Napoli aim for the round of 16 with tough matches<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prende il via a Coverciano la Unity Euro Cup 2026, torneo di calcio dedicato a rifugiati e comunit\u00e0 ospitanti, con 22 squadre da tutta Europa.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[85,3259,4397,5195,4276,1306],"ppma_author":[30],"class_list":["post-125911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcio","tag-calcio","tag-coverciano","tag-inclusione-sociale","tag-rifugiati","tag-torneo","tag-uefa"],"relative_dates":{"created":"5 hours ago","modified":"5 hours ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":30,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"paolopicone","display_name":"Redazione Centrale","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/54de8379a15a6539d41f5cd43c1b6fc220d10161ae5fefcd739b4111632a6a1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Redazione","last_name":"Centrale","user_url":"https:\/\/primasport.eu","author_category":"0","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125926,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125911\/revisions\/125926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125911"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=125911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}