The Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP) and the Football Foundation will pay tribute to firefighters on the sixth round of the I League, with a minute of silence and the planting of 200 trees for each goal, the organization announced today.
“On matchday six of the I Liga, which runs from today to Monday, a minute of silence will be held, symbolically accompanied by the placement of a firefighter’s helmet in the central point of the field”, said the LPFP, in a statement.
The organization adds that “the clubs will also join in the tribute through their captains, who will enter the field wearing a firefighting peacekeepers’ jacket.”
The LPFP adds that, in the same context, the Football Foundation, “in an initiative to mitigate the burnt forest territory, will donate 200 native trees for each goal scored in the games of the sixth round of the I League.
“In this way, Portuguese professional football clearly demonstrates its solidarity and capacity to respond, to help remedy the damage caused by the calamity of recent days”, the note adds.
Seven people died and 161 were injured due to the fires that have been affecting since Sunday mainly the North and Center regions of the country, in the districts of Aveiro, Porto, Vila Real, Braga, Viseu and Coimbra, and which have destroyed dozens of houses.
The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC) counts five deaths, excluding from the count two civilians who died of sudden illness.
The area burned in mainland Portugal since Sunday exceeds 121 thousand hectares, according to the European Copernicus system, which shows that in the North and Center regions more than 100 thousand hectares have already burned, 83% of the area burned throughout the national territory.
Source: www.cmjornal.pt
