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ritchie4383t | 02/07/2010
MADRID – Real Madrid plans to provide funds to rebuild a school that was destroyed in the earthquake in Haiti. Team president Florentino Perez said the Real Madrid Foundation will donate money to resurrect the Ecole Saint Gerard in Port-au-Prince. Real Madrid will work with a Spanish NGO that founded the school. It had 1,200 students but was flattened in the quake, with some 300 children killed, Perez...
camelliau40sm | 02/07/2010
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – President-elect Jose Mujica of Uruguay wants Digeo Maradona to work on an anti-drug campaign. Mujica said in Tuesday's edition of El Observador newspaper that Maradona's struggles with his own drug addiction would help him connect with younger people. He said Maradona, being one of the great soccer players and Argentina's coach, would appeal to teens. Maradona has had at least...
reedz98c0 | 02/07/2010
LISBON, Portugal – Kaka and Robert Pires were among the scorers in a charity game to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake. More than two dozen current and retired international players pulled on jerseys for the annual Match against Poverty. They also included France's Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry, and Portugal's Luis Figo. The game was organized by the United Nations Development Program...
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