More and more footballers are trying to use their earned money for something meaningful. For the last few decades, players have mostly been connected with things like expensive cars, extended partying, beautiful models, alcohol, cocaine, and we have recently seen bright examples like Marcus Rashford, Didier Drogba, Antonio Rudiger, or Sadio Mane, trying to do something for their communities or for the public awareness. Vinícius Jr. has launched a social project focused on learning and education. He has created the Instituto Vini Jr and developed an app that uses football to stimulate learning. “I want to impact children’s lives” – that’s Vinicius’ goal. 👏 pic.twitter.com/i4kg1CQMAL— Madrid Xtra. (@MadridXtra) July 18, 2021 And we can add Real Madrid player Vinicius Jr. to the list. The 21-years old striker created “Instituto Vini Jr” and developed a mobile app that uses football to encourage learning, and his former school was ideal for the pilot project. A cell phone application called “Base” was developed to make children’s studies easier and more playful. The Paulo Freire Municipal School will receive the pilot project. And the idea is that later this project will reach other schools.“I want to make an impact when I enter the match and because of the things I do off the field too. I want to impact in the short, medium, and long term, so that in a few years’ time people can say that Vinicius was important for the improvement of children, for education and for having fewer illiterates in our country, which is always very complicated” said the Real Madrid striker.A new world order: 533 days have passed since Real Madrid bought a player from another clubVictor Ladeira developed the app and he explained how it works. “The first thing we did was to use the language of football. Football is not just a sport, it is a universal, timeless language that teaches a lot. So, you can, for example, learn geometry by looking at a football field, where you will have the big circle, which is plane geometry, but you also already have the ball, which is a geometric solid, it’s a sphere. When you bring these elements that are part of the child’s repertoire, it attracts their interest. Vini says a lot that in football you have the physical part, the fundamentals, the tactical part, a part that is considered boring by the athletes themselves, but that forms the basis of a good professional. At school it’s the same thing, basic education, right? Mathematics, science, chemistry, geography… Sometimes they are considered boring subjects, but they will form a necessary basis for a future professional in any field.” said Victor Ladeira, who is the director of Instituto Vini Jr.Florentino labels Ronaldo and Mourinho as ‘idiots’ in a 2012 audio – to top off verbal attacks he made towards two club legends 24 hours priorThe Real Madrid striker finances everything from his own pocket. The Institute provides, for example, several cell phones for the school, so that children can access the application on-site and, especially, at home. The attacker’s eyes are looking to the future.“I don’t want the children to see more Vinicius Jrs, more Neymars, more Cristiano Ronaldos. I want to have more doctors, more people trained, more people in all segments for the evolution of each one” concluded the Brazilian.
