Barça players send signed shirt to Anthony Borges, hero of Stoneman Douglas shooting

Anthony Borges, who played at the new Barça Academy in Lauderhill, near Fort Lauderdale, for two months in 2016, Florida, has received a club shirt signed by the first team players this week. And it’s a gesture that he most certainly deserves. For the 15-year-old of Venezuelan origin is a true hero.

He goes to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, the scene of tragedy this week when a former pupil shot dead 14 students and three staff members and injured several others.

Anthony received five bullet shots in the back and limbs as he helped 20 classmates to take refuge in one of the rooms while holding the door – and thanks to his gallantry the death toll, horrific as it already is, was not much higher.

Barcelona dream
Now in hospital recovering, one of Anthony’s greatest dreams has always been to travel to Barcelona and meet the first team players. And as the club told his father Royer on the phone this week, it would be more than happy to help with that.

It was journalist Santiago Segurola who set things in motion. He informed the club of the situation, and Barça immediately offered the support of its own medical services to help ensure that Anthony gets all the surgery he needs to get back to enjoying one of his greatest passions, playing soccer, as soon as possible.
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Anthony Borges es un chico de 15 años que el 14 de febrero pasado recibió el impacto de cinco balas en la espalda y las extremidades cuando ayudó a 20 compañeros a refugiarse en un aula mientras él sostenía la puerta. Así los salvó de los disparos de un ex alumno que disparaba indiscriminadamente en el instituto de secundaria Marjory Soneman Douglas, de Parkland (Florida). El chico, de origen venezolano, es aficionado del Barça y en 2016 estuvo entrenando en la Barça Academy de Lauderhill, cerca de Fort Lauderdale (Florida), una de las seis escuelas que tiene el Club en Estados Unidos.

al fútbol, ​​una de sus pasiones.