About Soccer Aid
In 2006 many people around the world enjoyed a summer of football, when top international teams competed for the World Cup.
In May that year, another exciting football event also took place in the UK that touched the lives of children around the world in a very different way.
Soccer Aid, brainchild of UNICEF UK Ambassador Robbie Williams, hit TV screens in the UK at the end of May 2006. As well as providing a week of fun entertainment on ITV, Soccer Aid raised £2.6 million for the work of UNICEF and its partners, providing textbooks, medicines, clean water, and mosquito nets, as well as care and protection, for thousands of children in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Soccer Aid was broadcast daily from 22 to 27 May. Many UNICEF supporters enjoyed watching the World Cup football legends and major celebrities training, competing for a place in one of two teams, and finally battling it out on the pitch for the Soccer Aid title at Old Trafford. A half-hour show of each day’s trials and tribulations, hosted by Ant and Dec, proved very popular viewing as did the the Soccer Aid final broadcast live from Old Trafford.
If you would like to follow in Soccer Aid’s footsteps and make a difference to children worldwide here are a couple of ways you can help:
