New York/Geneva/Freetown (PRWEB) August 31, 2011
Fresh from her womens soccer championship win in the United States, the worlds top female player, Marta Vieira da Silva, today kicks off a three-day visit to Sierra Leone to highlight the countrys efforts to empower women.
Vieira da Silva, a Brazilian national known to her fans as Marta, is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), as well as a forward player with the Western New York Flash.
Following a 1-1 match draw during which Marta scored, her… Continue reading
Geneva/Hamburg (PRWEB) September 26, 2011
Football stars Ronaldo and Zin?dine Zidane announced today that the ninth annual Match Against Poverty will take place in Hamburg, Germany on 13 December 2011, with most of the proceeds going towards addressing the ongoing food crisis in the Horn of Africa.
As Goodwill Ambassadors for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ronaldo and Zidane will gather a team of other famous soccer players for a friendly game against an all-star side from German team Hamburger Sport-Verein (HSV).
HSV is one of Germanys… Continue reading
(PRWeb UK) September 2, 2010
The dust has settled after the first ever African World Cup, but with the arrival of the football season in the UK, the wait to see how fans favourite teams perform is over. The 2010/2011 Barclays Premier League recently kicked off and, after a very interesting summer, the opening weeks have been equally intriguing. Clubs like Manchester City have spent approximately ?130 million to bolster their squads strength, but only time will tell if it was money well spent.
This season started, as each… Continue reading
(PRWEB UK) 17 September 2011
Sportsdirect.com launch their biggest ever catalog this month. At a massive 724 pages and with 2 million copies being produced, there are enough pages to circle the world eight and a half times over.
This bumper catalog boasts over 5,800 products, and features interviews from top athletes including Wayne Rooney, Paula Radcliffe, and John McEnroe. It is packed full of expert advice and tips as well as exciting competitions to win some amazing prizes such as trips to Mount Everest, the French Alps &… Continue reading
Dore, Sheffield (PRWEB) March 11, 2011
Ideasbynet, the Sheffield based promotional gifts company, has announced it will soon be stocking this season’s safer alternative to the controversial snood – Tuggz.
Ideasbynet welcomed Sepp Blatter’s decision to ban the snood from professional football pitches. The FIFA president claimed the snood, if tugged upon by another player, “can be dangerous, even like hanging somebody”.
The danger Blatter describes is experienced by amateur footballers all over the country. The son of Peter Howarth, Ideasbynet’s Managing Director, is one such amateur footballer.… Continue reading
Glasgow and Grimsby (PRWEB UK) 23 June 2011
Industry experts like http://www.fingershield.co.uk say It is estimated 40,000 Children in the UK are treated in Accident and Emergency wards every year through trapping their fingers in doors Shockingly up to 5% of these treatments require surgery or amputation. On average it costs the NHS up to ?2500 for each treatment which is a staggering amount of money, data understates the magnitude of the problem, since only Accident and Emergency visits were considered. Those injuries that were tended to at home, in… Continue reading
