1GOAL campaign and Goal.com in content agreement
1GOAL CAMPAIGN AND GOAL.COM IN CONTENT AGREEMENT The world’s largest new media football company, Goal.com, and 1GOAL, the global campaign to encourage support for their bid to realise education for all, is delighted to announce a content agreement in the lead up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where Goal.com will be producing content on behalf of the 1GOAL campaign. With Africa’s first World Cup just over 50 days away, 1GOAL is seeking to secure $16 billion a year in funding from world leaders to ensure that the 72 million children currently unable to go to school can receive an education. Backed by FIFA, 1GOAL says this new funding should come from both increased aid commitments from rich countries as well as budget commitments from developing countries. The South African Government will be hosting a High Level Summit during the World Cup which will set out a road map to achieve this. Led by Co-Founder and Global Co-Chair of 1GOAL, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, and fellow Co-Chair Sepp Blatter, FIFA President, the campaign has a host of high-profile supporters including Gordon Brown, Hillary Clinton, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Zinedine Zidane, Bono, Ban Ki Moon and Inter Milan. “Education for all is a necessity, and we are delighted to offer Goal.com’s support to 1GOAL to help make this a reality,” Gianluigi Longinotti Buitoni, Goal.com Chairman and President, said. “Football is a powerful medium to generate support, and we will lend ourselves to this campaign to bring about change.” 1GOAL co-Chair and FIFA President Sepp Blatter commented: “We can only do this together – together we can achieve our real legacy; 1GOAL, Education for all." 1GOAL supporter and ambassador Rio Ferdinand added: “I believe that every child has the right to an education and that’s why I’m supporting 1GOAL and asking football fans around the world to join today." Ends. About Goal.com Goal.com is the world’s largest New Media football company, with 23 editions of its website in 17 languages providing comprehensive coverage of the globe’s most popular sport. Established in 2004, Goal.com’s writers are integrated within the culture they cover so to provide representative, local news and editorials for a global audience. www.goal.com For more information or interview please contact Will Wood, PR Director, on +44 (0)161 408 8221 or email will.wood@goal.com. About 1GOAL: 1GOAL is an initiative to mobilise support to hold world leaders to these promises for 2015 and is run by the Global Campaign for Education and is part of a large global education initiative. In 2000, 164 world governments came together to create the UN Millennium Development Goals. 2 of the 8 goals involve ending poverty through providing education for all which ensured that all boys and girls complete primary schooling by 2015. Since then many countries have abolished school fees, spending was increased by $4 billion and an extra 40 million children are now going to school. For information and interviews please call: Sam Barratt, Media Director on + 44 7818 406050 or email sam@join1goal.org or call John Coventry, Media Manager on john@join1goal.org or on + 44 7816 165279. More information about 1GOAL can be found at www.join1goal.org and footage and stills of players backing the campaign can be found at https://1goal.medialightbox.com, contact the 1GOAL press office for a password to access.
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