Wenger seeks to raise funds - but not for the first team
Here at ArsenalAddict, we're all for helping good causes.
So when an unexpected email arrived from Arsenal last night asking us to promote this season's Arsenal charity initiative, we were happy to oblige.
Today, Thursday 21 August, is the launch of Arsenal’s ‘Be a Gooner. Be a Giver.’ campaign for Teenage Cancer Trust, the charity dedicated to helping teenagers and young adults fight cancer.
The Gunners, with the help of supporters locally and globally, aim to raise £300,000 during the 2008/09 season partnership enabling Teenage Cancer Trust to increase its support for teenagers and young adults with cancer in the London area by building a brand new Day Care Centre at University College Hospital, London.
Arsene Wenger said: "Football raises a lot of money and if you can help other people, you should. A club has a social responsibility, maybe in England more than anywhere else because here a club grew out of its environment within a city. One of the strengths at Arsenal is that we are very conscious of that social responsibility."
Arsenal is the first to commit to funding part of Teenage Cancer Trust’s unit in the Day Care Centre. The Club hopes that other organisations will follow their lead, helping the charity to raise a further £1.2 million to complete the development of their unit.
You can find out more about the partnership by visiting the dedicated website to the partnership www.beagoonerbeagiver.organd if you donate any amount of cash before Arsenal’s fixture against Newcastle on Saturday 30th August, citing the code BAGBAG in the ‘your comments’ entry field, you will automatically be entered in to a prize draw to win an Arsenal football signed by the Arsenal first team! Donate any amount now!
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BUGDUV COULD GO STRAIGHT INTO ARSENAL TEAM SAYS AGENT
TIROL, MOLDOVA (AP) THE player described as the finest young player to come out of Eastern European football since Gheorge Hagi is good enough to go straight in to the Arsenal first team, according to his agent.
Massi Bugduv, the 16-year-old hotshot of Moldovan football has been linked with a host of top clubs around Europe for most of the summer.
Bugduv was left out of his country's friendly with Lithuania this week because of his complicated transfer negotiations that have seen him based in London since Monday with conflicting news reports having him signing for Arsenal, Chelsea, Zenit St Petersburg, and bizarrely, a move to Reading that involved a loan stint in Ireland in order to secure a work permit.
Last night in London, his agent Sergei Yulikov said that he is sure that the demands of the Premiership will not phase his protege.
"I have no doubt that he has the ability of Fabregas and Nasri, but he needs a stage to perform and prove this. He can be as strong as Obi Mikel of Chelsea, but remember that he is still just a 16 year old boy.
"I cannot talk about the talks with Arsenal, but Masal is happy that he is even being linked with this great football club.
"It plays football the beautiful way, always moving, always passing, always running. It is like the football he played as a child, which is not too long ago, so he cannot believe that this type of football can be played at the top level in Europe," he said.
Mr Yulikov was seen leaving Highbury House yesterday, the offices of Arsenal near the Emirates Stadium where twenty four hours previously, the club revealed Man Utd player Mikhael Silvestre as their latest summer signing.
Masal Bugduv has been described as one of the most exciting young footballers to come out of Moldocan football.
Born on April 14, 1992, he shot to fame playing for his native FC Olimpia B?l?i for whom he scored a hattrick on his competitive debut in an Adzi Cup match in December 2007.
Bagduv became the youngest player capped at that level by his country and he went on to make his senior international debut aged just 16 years and 44 days when he came on for the national team in their 2-2 draw with Armenia in a friendly international in Tiraspol on May 28.
Trailing 2-1 with just ten minutes left, Moldova seemed set to lose until Bagduv lost his marker on the left wing, shimmied inside two defenders and fired in a shot that could only be parried by Armenian keeper Racif into the path of onrushing Igor Bugaev who equalised. (AP)
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