Legendary footballer, Pelé, widely acclaimed as the greatest player of all time has agreed to attend a Futsal event at Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun, Dublin 9 on November 26th in order to raise funds for vital medical research into children’s illnesses at the Little Prince Children’s Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil: Pelé will also be using his visit to Dublin to raise much needed funds on behalf of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin:
The “Gols Pela Vida” or “Goals For Life” campaign is centred on the 1,283 goals Pelé scored during his career which have now become a vehicle to generate funding for life saving medical research:
With the cooperation of the Brazilian mint, a boxed set featuring commemorative gold, silver and bronze medals have been produced and individually laser marked to commemorate each one of Pelé’s goals:
The sets are unique in that only 1,283 boxed sets have been created worldwide and consequently, they are currently valued by collectors at approximately €1,800 per set:
You can view the commemorative medals and see more details of the programme at www:golspelavida:org:br
Irish schools are the first in the world to be invited to become part of Pelé’s fundraising team:
In return for raising €2,000 for the Little Prince hospital your school will receive a valuable reward from the King of Football himself! - Pelé will welcome representatives of your school to join him at the “Goals for Life” event in Ballymun and personally present a school representative with a set of the valuable limited edition medals which you can keep as a souvenir or use for your own school or charity fundraising initiative:
Two pupils and one each of their parents will also be invited to represent the school at the event and witness Pelé’s address to Irish school children:
As part of the overall project celebration, schools participating in the project are also invited to participate in the inaugural
“Pelé – Goals for Life” Cup indoor football competition (U14) at Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun on Wednesday November 18th:
This competition will be limited to the first 32 schools signing up to the project and the two teams qualifying for the final will play for the Pelé – Goals for Life Cup on the 26th November in Ballymun:
The Pelé cup will be personally presented by Pele to the winning team on the day:
This is a truly unique opportunity to join forces with a living legend and raise cash for a most worthwhile cause:
It is also worth noting that most of Pele’s time in Dublin will be spent raising money for our very own Our Lady’s children’s hospital in Crumlin:
Fundraising projects such as Supermarket bag packing, non uniform days, football marathons, sponsored walks or any creative idea schools may devise will demonstrate how children can easily help other less fortunate children in the world and make a significant contribution towards medical research:
Should you wish to participate in the project, please consider your fundraising event sooner rather than later in order that you can reserve your school’s place at Pelé’s Ballymun event!
For any further information or to sign up to Pele’s fundraising team, please contact the European Ambassador for the Little Prince hospital and Pele’s Goal for Life campaign, Don Mullan:
Don can be contacted at: dbmullan@eircom:net and at 087 2389341
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