Chile wins the Transplant Football World Cup, the first football tournament for transplants in which the Romanian team also participated, in Cervia, Italy.
Romania participated in the Transplant World Cup PHOTO Inquam Photos/Mihaela-Ionela Bobar
The presence of the national team was possible thanks to the support offered by the Romanian Transplant Association, which supported the formation of the team at the end of April this year.
The main message sent by those who participated is one of thanks to the organ donors, their families and the medical staff involved in the transplant activity.
The team of 16 transplant patients trained together only 9 days after the organization of the batch this spring and is formed, according to international rules, only from patients who have undergone a transplant of vital organs and who need or have needed during the treatment of medication immunosuppressive. Matches of this type consisted of two halves of 15 minutes each and had an unlimited number of player substitutions allowed.
The Romanian team, made up of organ transplant recipients from all corners of the country, finished the group that also included England, France, Wales, the United States of America and Ireland in last place.
However, the effort put in by them in simply participating in the conditions of major minuses from a logistical point of view, in addition to the positive message “Movement is medicine!” forwarded to all who have followed them over the last 5 months, are a reward in themselves and a testament to resilience and perseverance after complex medical procedures.
