SPORT
Sport is a change factor in society. Therefore, Telmex Telcel Foundation has developed programs that teach important life values, such as: team work, reward from efforts, the realization of dreams, companionship and competitiveness, among others.
Sport fosters relationships and integration, mainly among young people, as well as a healthy life style, away from addictions and gangs. fundaciontelmextelcel.org
SALÓN DEPORTE
Salón Deporte combines an exhibition of pieces related to different national and international sport disciplines, distributed in 9 rooms: Motorsports, Basketball, Baseball, Boxing, Olympic Sports, American Football, Soccer, Wrestling and Tennis.
Visitors can enjoy interactive spaces where they learn the background and history of those sports.
HIGH PERFORMANCE
TELMEX TELCEL BOX RING
This program supports Mexican boxing by providing boxers with the opportunity to receive financial scholarships –as long as they are an example of behavior in their daily lives- so they can concentrate on their sport activities and, at the same time, they feel motivated to continue with their studies.
Results
21 world championships
81 scholarships to active boxers and pensions
32 former champions supported for life
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MEDAL WINNERS AND ATHLETES
Economic support is given to amateur and high-performance athletes with the goal of strengthening their training and motivating their professional development.
Results
10 athletes and medalists in the disciplines of diving, archery, precision shooting, triathlon, karate and taekwondo, including 2 Paralympic and 4 Olympic medalists.
TELMEX TELCEL CAR-RACING TEAM
The objective of this program is to promote motorsports at a national and international level, supporting the development of young Mexican and Latin American drivers to gain access to the most prestigious categories in the world. Telmex Telcel Car-Racing Team drivers have achieved important victories in various motorsport series, putting Latin America on a high level, such as Checo Pérez, Daniel Suárez, Memo Rojas, Benito Guerra, Tatiana Calderón, Sebastián Montoya, Enzo Fittipaldi and Abraham Calderón, among others.
Results
1,345 podiums
556 wined races
78 championships
38 sub-championships
370 leading positions (poles)
56 successful drivers
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SPORTS FOR EVERYBODY
TELMEX TELCEL SOCCER CUP
It’s the biggest amateur soccer cup from the world, held at national level in two categories: men’s division and women’s division. The goal of this program is to keep young people off the streets and away from vices so they commit to continue practicing soccer on the fields and, in doing so, strive to be better every day.
Results
4'265,137 players in 250,074 equipos
11 Guinness Records
FROM THE STREET TO THE SOCCER FIELD WITH TELMEX TELCEL
This program was established for young people in vulnerable situations, with the aim of providing the participants with the opportunity of getting to know their capabilities and focusing their energies in practicing street soccer in both, women’s and men’s divisions, in order to have better and healthier quality of life.
Since 2009, Telmex Telcel Foundation has supported the participation of Mexico’s teams in the Homeless World Cup held in several countries.
Results
254,119 players in 35,623 teams
Championships obtained: 7 in women’s division and 4 in men’s division
TELMEX TELCEL BASKETBALL LEAGUE
This program aims to massively increase the practice of basketball in our country to keep young people away from unsafe environments, such as addictions and violence. At the same time, the program promotes physical activity to avoid a sedentary life style, which causes overweight and obesity. The program also fosters values among young people, including the commitment to a healthy life style and gender equality.
The League represents the most important basketball tournament in Mexico; aimed to children and young people between 11 and 17 years of age, in men’s and women’s divisions.
Results
452,617 players in 41,147 teams
TELMEX TELCEL BASEBALL LEAGUE
Baseball tournament for children between 11 and 12 years old from all over the Mexican Republic, with the goal of supporting them at the stage in which they haven’t signed yet a contract with a professional team. The league has served as important seedbed for national teams in this category. In this way, we support the prevention of obesity, delinquency, alcoholism, drug addiction and a sedentary life style.
Results
Han participado 48,921 players have participated in 3,141 teams
TELMEX TELCEL PROMISING ATHLETES
The purpose of this program is fostering sports among children and young people from different regions of the country, taking advantage of their natural physical endurance and their potential to outstand, with the only requirement of continuing with their studies.
Some athletes have represented Mexico in international tournaments.
Results
1,638 participating children and young people
TELMEX TELCEL TAEKWONDO CUP
This program aims to provide the competitive level, arbitration, technology and high-performance tools to practice this discipline throughout the country with equality and harmonious development. Improvement alternatives are given to intermediate level taekwondo competitors, in the search for talent and prospects with potential to become high-performance athletes in the near future.
Results
6,236 participating talents
BEACH VOLLEYBALL AND FOOTBALL SOCCER
Program aimed to children and young people with the purpose of getting them closer to sports, by holding volleyball and football soccer tournaments at some beaches of Acapulco, Guerrero, in a healthy and fun environment.
Results
6,197 beach volleyball participants
6,423 football soccer beach players
EVENTS
TELMEX TELCEL UNIVERISTY CHAMPIONSHIPS
This program encourages young people to practice sports and to study, promoting a comprehensive education and enhancing the sports level of universities in our country.
It is the leading university football soccer tournament in Mexico, in which 24 universities participate in women’s football, 22 in men’s football, 12 in women’s volleyball and 12 in men’s division.
Results
8,101 players in 295 teams
RUNNING FOR EDUCATION
This program is part of the activities that are held during 12 dates of NASCAR Mexico Series (previously Telcel Super Cup) with presence in 9 cities, in which the scarce resources populations are supported with wheelchairs, scholarships, computational equipment, printers and bicycles.*
Results
2,800 tablets and printers donated
*Donation figures are reported in the Education and Health sections
RUNNING TO CHANGE STORIES
This program was created during NASCAR Mexico Series in 2015, nowadays comprising the Quarter Mile, Mayan Rally and Pan-American Race events, in which hearing aids, wheelchairs, and support to have organ and tissue transplants are given to low-income people who don’t have access to health services and to a computer.*
THE QUARTER MILE
National motor racing championship held in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Aguascalientes. In these races Telmex Telcel Foundation gives wheelchairs to people with mobility problems.**
PAN-AMERICAN RACE
This is the most important and longest rally-type speed racing car event in the world; with the participation of 100 national and international world-class drivers. Telmex Telcel Foundation donates wheelchairs at the finish line of every stage in the route.*
MAYAN RALLY
Rally-type event that is held since 2014 in Mexico’s southeast, using the beautiful landscape of the Mayan Riviera to race antique cars. Wheelchairs are donated each year to people with mobility problems in this event.*
* The donation figures for wheelchairs, hearing aids, support for transplants, scholarships and bicycles are reported in the Health and Education sections.
WRESTLING
Wrestling events are held in hospitals and welfare institutions in Mexico City, for people who do not have access to this type of shows due to their delicate health condition or to their low economy, providing joy to both children and adults.
Resultados
51 wrestling shows held
TELMEX TELCEL MEXICO TOUR
With the participation of national and foreign teams, a multicolored caravan tours through Mexico’s highways and its beautiful sceneries, celebrating the most important cycling event in the country. Bicycles are donated at the finish line of each stage in the route.*
Resultados
816 cyclists in 102 teams from countries in Latin America, the United States and Europe.
* The donation figures for wheelchairs, hearing aids, support for transplants, scholarships and bicycles are reported in the Health and Education sections.
