We talked about it and we will talk about it again about the many and beautiful demonstrations of solidarity. Donations and fundraisers that come from all backgrounds: from fashion houses, from small and medium-sized companies, from supermarket chains. And now fantasy football also takes the field against this pandemic. This sneaky and contagious virus that is endangering the health of all of us and is giving our health system a hard time. Public health, if there is one thing that appeared clear from the start, does not have the human resources, the structures, the machinery capable of dealing with this emergency in the best possible way. To cure all those who need it. And this is why an unstoppable chain of solidarity has started.
Fantasy football takes the field with #UnFantAiuto
To join the already numerous initiatives there is also the world of fantasy football. The initiative started from the communities Ugly Football Players, Own goals, Call himself Bomber e SOS Fanta. He plans to donate prize pools from all leagues to charity. #UnFantAiuto, as it has been called, it is already bearing its first fruits. In just a few hours, more than 900 donors have already raised over 80.000 euros on the platform GoFundMe. Therefore, anyone who has an account and is enrolled in a fantasy football league can donate the amount intended for the one who would have won the championship to charity to a hospital of their choice.
"It is a 'small gesture' for everyone, but a 'big gesture' for hospitals, doctors and nurses throughout Italy" - declared one of the promoting groups. A small gesture by the many very young people, the so-called fantasy coaches, who love this game and have not missed the opportunity to help out in this time of need. The collection will benefit various Italian hospitals including the Policlinico San Matteo hospital in Pavia, the Maggiore hospital in Novara, and the Sacco hospital in Milan. Another good page in this bad story.
The solidarity of the world of football
In addition to fanta, even in real football is giving demonstrations of closeness and solidarity. Even more so after Rugani, the Juventus player, and Manolo Gabbiadini of Sampdoria, tested positive for Coronavirus. Spal's colleague, Andrew Petagna, through his Instagram profile he launched the movement #Let's leaveBackNone and associated fundraising for the Italian Public Hospitals. "The first we will help will be the Niguarda of Milan who needs 5 resuscitation stations worth a total of 350 thousand euros" - writes on the social network. There Juventus started a fundraiser. Inter and the Suning Groupinstead, they donated 300.000 masks and other health products to the Civil Protection. There Roma raised € 50.000 through the RomaCares foundation and also launched a fundraiser for Spallanzani. The president, Pallotta, contributed by himself to the same cause with 50 thousand euros.
The Rossoneri team from Milan, through Foundation Milan, has set up a fundraiser to support AREU, the agency committed to assisting those affected by Covid-19 in Lombardy. Then, Parma and Brescia. Piacenza, Como and Udinese. Filippo Inzaghi has decided to to help the ASST of Monza, the USL Hospital of Piacenza and the San Donato Hospital Group. And the list of players who are making donations to help the hospitals of their cities to cope with the emergency and to have the necessary equipment to treat everyone is very long. Veloso, Zaccagni, Aradori, Cistana. Pazzini, Insigne, Ilicic. And again, Bermardeschi, Di Lorenzo, Boateng, Dybala. Zaniolo, Cernigoi, Meret, Property. And we are sure that the list of these champions, on and off the pitch, is destined to grow. All united to kick the Coronavirus.
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