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In front of the mythical door 10A are three rooms, arranged in a circle, which face each other. A bust of Mandela, with a signature on his side on one side; a small fragment of the cell where Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island; a sports shirt with white and green stripes, with a black band on the front, where is inscribed the signature of Nelson Mandela.
It is from this sweater that began the construction of the exhibition that evokes the club 31.118 partner Alvalade. The director of the Sports Museum explained to TSF, during a visit to the preparations for the exhibition, that the jersey had been signed at
1997 meeting between Mandela
José Roquette – then president of Sporting C.P. – and João Gomes, the founder of Sporting Nucleus in Johannesburg. It was at this meeting that it was agreed that Mandela would be a member of the Alvalade club. The record was confirmed on July 28, 1997, twenty-one years ago
"It is also an exhibition on the story of a friendship between João Gomes, a sports player who has been living in South Africa for many years, and Nelson Mandela, and it is here that the opportunity for Mandela to join Sporting is born ", reveals Isabel Victor
An exhibition based on stories
This relationship is told in
first person by João Gomes himself
. From the multimedia collection of the Museu do Sporting is now exposed an interview on his own, where he recounts one of the encounters he had with the former South African president.
"One of the key points of this video is a story in which the son of João Gomes and himself meet Nélson Mandela.While Mandela spent ten minutes talking to João Gomes' son, ignoring the other adult, "Miguel Pereira, the technician of the museum, begins by explaining
the son of João Gomes then heard, sitting on the knees of the old Nobel Peace Prize, the following sentence:" I can not speak to all the children of the country, and so, you, in your school, you will be my ambbadador and you will tell all your friends that I really love them ", explains Miguel Pereira. José Gomes is still the custodian of the Mandela membership card in South Africa.
But there are more stories of people who have fallen on Mandela. A bust of a rare series, only six copies, numbered, is also presented. He arrived from South Africa for this exhibition, thanks to a Portuguese businessman based in this country. It is also from this personal collection that a fragment of the Robben Island cell arrived, and a picture of Mandela, signed by himself.
Objects and testimonies that speak of values
"This is an evocation with objects of great symbolic value to signal the evocation of a figure that leaves us a message about the importance of sport in the union of peoples, in the strengthening of friendship, in the great values of humanism, it is also about the Aegis of this message
Among the different pieces is also a certificate of Sporting as a partner of the Mandela Foundation and the Children's Fund, named after the former head of the State – Nelson Mandela Fund for Children The relationship between the club and this fund began at this meeting in Pretoria in 1997, but it remains to this day.
In tribute to Mandela, sports players will wear a quote on sport – the power to change the world. "It's the initiative of Saturday's men's football match against Mars eille
Before this meeting, A video message from Johannesburg, where Chester Williams, the first black player to win the rugby world cup for the South African team, goes to Sporting Stadium: "Nelson Mandela , We miss you. You will always live in our hearts, "says the athlete at the end of the message, which is made public at the time of the game.
This is also the motto for the beginning of the show, patented at the Sports Museum until September. (function (d, s, id) {
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