Mission
Participate in Changing Lives
Gol Iluminado provides corporations with an opportunity to utilise their social responsibility allowances to access sport at the highest level, to enhance your brand with "Sport for Hope" as the conduit and mechanism to implement educational initiatives for families and children in need and at risk.
In 2013 Gol Ilumiado “Indigenous Tribes” initiative won the award for “Sport Event of the Year; Encuentro Sociocultural de Pueblos Originarios” from "Peace and Sport" a neutral and a political organization based in Monaco.
The Peace and Sport oranization works for sustainable peace, throughout the world. To achieve this, it promotes the practice of structured sport and sporting values to educate young generations and help foster social stability, reconciliation and dialogue between communities.
Peace and Sport is an international initiative at the service of peace, Peace and Sport intervenes in areas made vulnerable by extreme poverty, recent conflict or lack of social cohesion. Under the High Patronage of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Elias Figueroa receiving the Sport Event of the Year award.
"The sporting community has the power to advance humanity and to help ensure that all children everywhere have access to health care, education, protection and equality".
Elias Figueroa
Chairman
"Build a Peaceful and Better World -
through Sport and the Olympic Ideal"
‘Steve Leighton’
President
The Gol Iluminado Foundation was incorporated in 2007 as a US 501(c)(3) Non-profit organization with the purpose of utilising sport to create hope, peace and development in the world. The origin of the foundations core beliefs dates back to 1984 when a group of footballers gathered in Amsterdam and formed “Futbol Masters” with the vision of giving back to society.
Founding members of Futball Masters in Amsterdam 1984.