Zico Quotes
I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.
Zico. "Zico announces FIFA presidency bid." Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 10 June 2015.
In his younger days Jinnah was considered one of the greatest of the Indian Politicians in the Congress Party and all of India. Even though he was a Muslim, his leadership and political philosophy was appreciated by educated and politically active Indians of all faiths and casts. He was also so considered by the English Viceroy and his staff and noted by the politicians in England as a man who could bring Indians together without regard for religious or socio-economic status. He underwent a number of personal tragedies and changed radically until he was not only a sectarian Muslim leader but threatened and facilitated Islamic terrorism against all the other religions. Jinnah's flip flop on this point led to one of the great massacres and tragedies in human history" The Nightingale of India
The quotation was made in the context of the Arab Israeli conflict, but the principle is general.