For a team as successful as Chelsea, success won’t mean so much if it is restricted on the pitch. Of course, the Blues know that. That’s why they’re bringing that success off the pitch, all the way to Ghana for their global charity partnership with Right to Play. The group composed of the Special One Jose Mourinho, five young players, and several coaches arrived in Accra, the country’s capital Tuesday night, for their 5-day visit to the African country.
Right to Play is a 6-year partnership that aims to improve lives of children in the most disadvantaged countries through the sport that unifies the world and attain development, health and peace. Taken from the organization’s website,
Right To Play uses specially-designed sport and play programmes to improve health, build life skills, and foster peace for children and communities affected by war, poverty, disease. Working in both the humanitarian and development contexts, Right To Play has projects in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Right To Play is the only global-scale implementer of Sport for Development and Peace programmes and takes an active role in driving research and policy development in this area and in supporting children’s rights.
Right To Play focuses on four strategic program areas: Basic Education and Child Development, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Peace Education, and Community Development and Participation.
Championship team Coventry City signs Hartlepool’s Greek keeper Dimitrios Konstantopoulos who starts playing on July 1 while Hartlepool gets Arran Lee-Barrett in return.
A British newspaper The News of the World claims an emergency meeting was held last week concerning the future of Blues midfielder Frank Lampard. The paper said he is closer than ever to leaving Stamford Bridge. (Right!)
At any given day, I think anyone would prefer the Swedish Sven over the clueless Macca (but it seems he’s not that clueless anymore). At times when England are failing in their Euro 2008 Qualifiers, we somehow miss Sven. Or this is the time when I somehow appreciate his job as England manager. Lo and behold, we might see him again. This time holding the position of an EPL club’s manager. He just made pubic his interest in managing ManCiteh whose manager Stuart Pearce was sacked just 2 weeks ago, a day or two after the Premiership season ended. Sven has previously noted that managing ManCiteh is not one of his highly preferred options. This time, he said in an interview, 
Sept. 19, 2007
