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Leon Balogun joins Common Goal, pledges % of salary to charity

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Brighton & Hove Albion defender Leon Balogun has become the latest player to join the growing social impact movement in football, Common Goal. The former Bundesliga player who joined Brighton last summer, has pledged 1% of his Premier League earnings to a collective fund that empowers football for social change organisations throughout the world.

Less than a year and a half since starting, Common Goal has already raised over $1 million and boasts a unique team of 68 male and female players covering 6 continents. Balogun is the 7th Premier League player to commit a fraction of their salary to community organisations, following Juan Mata (Manchester United), Charlie Daniels (Bournemouth), Alfie Mawson (Fulham), Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester), Isaac Christie-Davies (Liverpool), and Brighton captain, Bruno Saltor. Joining them is Tabea Kemme (Arsenal), Jane Ross (West Ham), Tessel Middag (West Ham), Siobhan Chamberlain (Manchester United) and Pauline Bremer (Manchester City) representing female football in England.

The only coach to have joined from the UK so far is also a woman, Manchester United Women’s Head Coach, Casey Stoney MBE. Born and raised in Berlin to a German mother and a Nigerian father, Balogun, 30, has played for several Bundesliga clubs including Hannover, Werder Bremen and most recently Mainz. At national team level he plays for Nigeria, who he represented at the 2018 World Cup, alongside his Common Goal teammate William Troost-Ekong, of Serie A side Udinese Calcio.

Balogun said: “As football players, we enjoy a high place in society and we have a very important role to play because of this. Joining Common Goal gives me the opportunity to actively help and support people in their communities and open up doors to a better life.” Brighton captain Bruno, who was one of the first players to join the movement in 2017, welcomed Balogun to the team: “I am thrilled that Leon has been inspired by seeing what we’re achieving in Common Goal and has stepped forward to join us in helping others through football. I hope this will inspire more players in the Premier League, and beyond, to take the pledge.”

From Udinese in Italy, the 25-year-old Nigeria defender William Troost-Ekong added: “Football can be a tough industry, but it also a very inspiring place where you can achieve so much and create special relationships along the way. Leon has experienced a lot and is a tough guy, yet he remains so humble, friendly and open-minded. I’m delighted to welcome a friend and another Super Eagles player to the Common Goal team.”
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ABOUT COMMON GOAL

Common Goal is a global movement in which the football community pledges a minimum of 1% of its earnings to football for good organisations that use the game to advance the Global Goals. Common Goal is the creation of streetfootballworld, the international leader in football for good. Over the past 15 years, the organisation has assembled a global network of more than 120 football based organisations that use football as a tool to tackle social issues ranging from gender equality in India to peacebuilding in Colombia to refugee integration in Germany.

streetfootballworld supports Common Goal’s members by aligning their donations with social
initiatives that generate the greatest impact around the world.

www.common-goal.org | www.streetfootballworld.org

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