Roberto Reyes wants to unite the world through used soccer cleats. As winter arrived during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, he and his father were cleaning out the garage of their Mission Viejo home in Southern California when they found piles of old soccer shoes. At that time late in 2020, he felt like there was a lot of hate in the world, he remembers. People were protesting across the country and fighting against each other. To combat this, Reyes, 27, decided to start FUTBL.org, a nonprofit organization that collects used soccer cleats with a goal of putting smiles on children’s faces again. “Soccer unites the world for 90 minutes. It doesn’t matter the age, gender, race and what social issues are happening,” Reyes said. “Everyone stops and plays. That was the idea.” Many younger professionals like Reyes took advantage of their time during the pandemic to chase …
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