Chelsea, the revolution continues in March – The Forward

(JTA) – Two professional football teams – one in England and one in the United States – will send a joint delegation to the March of the Living.

The Chelsea Football Club and the New England Revolution announced Wednesday in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that they would gather about thirty members at the May 2 ceremony in Poland. About 10,000 people will leave the concentration camps of Auschwitz in Birkenau in silence. lives lost in the Holocaust.

The joint delegation will consist of Chelsea's director Eugene Tenenbaum, CEO Guy Laurence, former director Avram Grant, club ambbadador Steve Redgrave and six players from his academy. under 18 years old. From the Revolution, President Brian Bilello and former player Charlie Davies, now the club's ambbadador, will be present.

Last year, Chelsea was the first member of the Premier League, the highest level for British football clubs, to send a delegation to the march. The Major League Soccer Revolution will be the first US team to send a group.

On May 15, the teams will face off in a charity match in Boston to raise funds for four organizations: the World Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League, the Holocaust Educational Trust, and the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue. , site of a deadly shootout last year.

The participation in the March of the Living is part of a joint initiative of Chelsea, owned by Russian Jewish businessman Roman Abramovich, and the Revolution, belonging to the man of the American Jewish affairs Robert Kraft, to fight against anti-Semitism in sport.

Chelsea launched the project last year in response to his fans repeatedly using anti-Semitic insults and singing anti-Jewish cheers.