The Penpal Initiative

February 8, 2023

Through finding my pen pal I sat and thought who could I possibly pick to be that position and my mind came across someone who is special to me my old soccer coach Mr. Walter Bustamante a former professional soccer player of the MetroStars later named the New York Red Bulls in the past, a hard working coach, and a media icon in my family and his native country Peru where he has connections to the Peruvian National soccer team and the Peruvian league teams, and created his own academy team. He is a hard working professional and someone connected to the professional players in his position. I contacted my former coach through his number that I have and he was very honored to have been chosen as the sports penpal for this project as it helps his name be exposed to create more awareness to who he is and how hard working he is and the platform he has built for himself and his country.

I contacted Mr. Walter Bustamante through facebook messenger where I informed him of my project and he was grateful to be chosen he is a very kind appreciative person and I had the luck to have known his as a kid growing up.

In this picture Walter Bustamante is in a meeting for his academy where he is sitting next to one of the best players to ever come out of Peru Teofilo Cubillas the man who took Peru far in the 1970 world cup playing against the likes of Pele.