FOOTBALL CARES.........

Italian club AS Roma in the forefront of the refugee crisis. A most laudable gesture from the footballers.


Francesco Totti, Mo Salah and Edin Dzeko Appear in Roma Refugee Plea


By Tom Webb , UK Staff Writer
Sep 14, 2015
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Roma stars Francesco Totti, Mohamed Salah and Edin Dzeko have appeared in a short video for footballcares.it, a charity set up by the club to address the current refugee crisis.

The trio reveal a number of shocking stats about the current crisis before encouraging viewers to donate.

At the time of writing, the charity has raised €579,425.04, 58 percent of its €1 million target.

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A big well done to Eric Cantona for his humanitarian gesture.

Eric Cantona has informed a French radio station that he is planning to ‘house and feed’ a refugee family for at least two years and that he was inspired to act by what his grandparents went through while fleeing the Spanish civil war.

Cantona told France Inter that he is planning to provide a small house, a garden and food for a family of refugees for “at least” two years.

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I’m organising that with authorities in Marseille. If you house someone who does not have the right to work, then they need to eat too.

My maternal grandparents were Spanish Republicans who fled Franco by crossing the Pyrenees on foot.

That being our story, it certainly played a role.

What a jolly good oeuf that man is.

(Via Guardian)

Why should Mr Cantona go public about his charitable deeds? Why cant he just do it without the publicity?

Mac wrote: Why should Mr Cantona go public about his charitable deeds? Why cant he just do it without the publicity?

Maybe to encourage others, who can, to follow his example ??