- Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford receives recognition from Facebook for his fight against child poverty
- The Marcus Rashford Award has been created, an award to honor the work of athletes in favor of social change
- Marcus Rashford has more than 25 million followers on his social networks
Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has received significant recognition from Facebook and the World Football Summit for his fight against child poverty in his country.
A few months ago, the young player of the England soccer team went viral on social networks not because of his altruistic work, which he has carried out for years, but because of the unfortunate moment he lived in the recent final of the European Championship, in which he missed one of the decisive penalties of the match.
It was not only Rashford but also two other of his classmates, Jadon Sancho and Bucayo Saka, who received all kinds of messages of hate and discrimination on their respective social networks, which put the issue of cyberbullying on the table in this type of crime. platforms and that every day seems to gain more relevance in the world.
Fortunately for the player, that episode of the final is already behind him and now he is immersed in a new season with the club that saw him debut, Manchester United, a team that today has made a very important move in terms of marketing with the announcement of the Cristiano Ronaldo’s return to the club and to the Premier League.
His work on the field is well known by fans, but his work off the field has not received the same attention and is, perhaps, the most remarkable in his career as a public personality who, in the end, represents a brand.
For a few years, the 23-year-old player and one of the greatest promises in world football, has worked together with the NGO Fareshare to help fight child poverty, delivering more than 21 million lunches to children and your families.
It also launched The Child Food Poverty Taskforce, a conglomerate of 15 organizations that also put their effort and focus on the issue of child poverty in the UK.
Rashford is one of the players who has dedicated part of his career to working for the benefit of the most socially marginalized sectors, work that has now been recognized by Facebook and the World Football Summit, the great global convention on the football industry. which together created The Marcus Rashford Award.
The Marcus Rashford Award will be officially presented at the next edition of the World Football Summit, which will take place on September 22 and 23. This is an initiative that will recognize athletes who make use of their media influence to promote social change.
Marcus Rashford is, to this day, one of the most prominent and popular footballers in Europe. He has more than 25 million followers on his social networks, of which more than 20 million are included on Facebook and Instagram.
The footballer has even used his influence on social networks to work for the benefit of children in the United Kingdom – children in situations of poverty or social marginalization.
Undoubtedly, beyond his talent on the field, wearing the number 10 on the Manchester United shirt, not one of the most powerful teams in Europe, Rashford is one of the outstanding cases in the world of football and represents, in some way , to a new wave of athletes who use their social networks to carry out causes more focused on social work.
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