Soccer Aid for Unicef 2023, broadcast live and exclusively on ITV1, Stv and Itvx last week from Old Trafford, Manchester, has raised £14.6 million for Unicef’s vital work giving children around the world the happy, healthy, play-filled childhoods they are entitled to.
Thanks to the generous support of the UK public, Unicef UK supporters, ITV1, Stv and Itvx viewers, this year’s amount brings the current total raised to date, since Soccer Aid for Unicef was founded by Unicef UK Ambassador Robbie Williams in 2006, to over £90 million for children worldwide.
The hotly anticipated match took place at the sold-out Old Trafford stadium in Manchester – welcoming back over 63,000 fans to the same venue that hosted the very first Soccer Aid for Unicef match in 2006. The match ended 4-2 to Soccer Aid World XI, with the team keeping the overall lead with 7-5 wins since the inaugural 2006 match.
Unicef UK Ambassador, Tom Hiddleston,...
Thanks to the generous support of the UK public, Unicef UK supporters, ITV1, Stv and Itvx viewers, this year’s amount brings the current total raised to date, since Soccer Aid for Unicef was founded by Unicef UK Ambassador Robbie Williams in 2006, to over £90 million for children worldwide.
The hotly anticipated match took place at the sold-out Old Trafford stadium in Manchester – welcoming back over 63,000 fans to the same venue that hosted the very first Soccer Aid for Unicef match in 2006. The match ended 4-2 to Soccer Aid World XI, with the team keeping the overall lead with 7-5 wins since the inaugural 2006 match.
Unicef UK Ambassador, Tom Hiddleston,...
- 6/23/2023
- Look to the Stars
Exclusive: October Films, the UK and U.S. production company best known for producing History’s Barbarians Rising, is taking advantage of football fever with a new six-part documentary series exploring the sport.
The company has partnered with Spanish production company Brutal Media to develop This Is Football (w/t).
The series will explore football’s impact on global culture and will try and understand how football has become the world’s biggest, and most unifying conversation. It will look at universal themes of the human experience from redemption, hope, love, fate, wonder, faith, through incredible stories turned up from every continent.
This Is Football is being filmed across the UK, Russia, which is hosting the 2018 World Cup, Argentina, Brazil, Israel, USA and China.
October Films, which is run by Executive Chairman Denman Rooke and MD Adam Bullmore, is not known for its sports programming but has produced a number...
The company has partnered with Spanish production company Brutal Media to develop This Is Football (w/t).
The series will explore football’s impact on global culture and will try and understand how football has become the world’s biggest, and most unifying conversation. It will look at universal themes of the human experience from redemption, hope, love, fate, wonder, faith, through incredible stories turned up from every continent.
This Is Football is being filmed across the UK, Russia, which is hosting the 2018 World Cup, Argentina, Brazil, Israel, USA and China.
October Films, which is run by Executive Chairman Denman Rooke and MD Adam Bullmore, is not known for its sports programming but has produced a number...
- 7/10/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Retired Argentinian soccer star Hernan Crespo was in Cannes on Sunday to promote “The Soccer Show” at MipTV. The sales arm of Dick Clark Productions is handling the show’s distribution and international launch.
“It is important that people know about the former football players outside of the sport,” said Crespo, who played for major professional soccer teams including Lazio, Inter Milan, and Chelsea. He was also a member of Argentina’s national squad, and one of its highest ever goal-scorers.
The show’s segment on Crespo looks at his working and home life and includes a tour of the museum inside his house containing trophies and mementos from his successful career. “I try to explain about my family, lifestyle, my passions and hobbies,” he said.
The show hails from U.K.-based content companies Infinity Creative Media and Zig Zag, which has made numerous soccer shows. They set out...
“It is important that people know about the former football players outside of the sport,” said Crespo, who played for major professional soccer teams including Lazio, Inter Milan, and Chelsea. He was also a member of Argentina’s national squad, and one of its highest ever goal-scorers.
The show’s segment on Crespo looks at his working and home life and includes a tour of the museum inside his house containing trophies and mementos from his successful career. “I try to explain about my family, lifestyle, my passions and hobbies,” he said.
The show hails from U.K.-based content companies Infinity Creative Media and Zig Zag, which has made numerous soccer shows. They set out...
- 4/8/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Ronaldinho, Gennaro Gattuso, Jamie Carragher and Hernan Crespo are to appear in an ambitious soccer documentary series as broadcasters around the world are gearing up for the World Cup this summer. British production Zig Zag has teamed up with Infinity Creative Media, the Chinese-backed production company chaired by British TV grandee Michael Grade, to produce The Football Show, a six-part series about the sport. The pair are developing the series for linear broadcasters…...
- 3/26/2018
- Deadline TV
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10 Days until the 2014 FIFA World Cup begins.
Just one calender month plus a day: 12th June- 13th July will determine not only the new (or still) Champions of the World for the next 4 years but will define or redefine the standing legacies, reputations and stock value of the 736 players whom are locked in to compete at this year’s show-piece event.
A month and a day in the life of a footballer is nothing. Injuries may come and go, form may peak and dip, goals might flow, sex scandals break and by the time it’s done, many of the world’s best will be £450,000+ better off than they were before. Yup, it’s ridiculous. In a career that will span over a decade (or two, in some cases), a month and a day is nothing.
Yet, some stories were never meant to be written by time.
10 Days until the 2014 FIFA World Cup begins.
Just one calender month plus a day: 12th June- 13th July will determine not only the new (or still) Champions of the World for the next 4 years but will define or redefine the standing legacies, reputations and stock value of the 736 players whom are locked in to compete at this year’s show-piece event.
A month and a day in the life of a footballer is nothing. Injuries may come and go, form may peak and dip, goals might flow, sex scandals break and by the time it’s done, many of the world’s best will be £450,000+ better off than they were before. Yup, it’s ridiculous. In a career that will span over a decade (or two, in some cases), a month and a day is nothing.
Yet, some stories were never meant to be written by time.
- 6/2/2014
- by Liam Johnson
- Obsessed with Film
With just a little over two short weeks to go until the release of FIFA 14, publishers EA have been cranking their marketing for the latest in the long-running football simulation game up a notch.
Last week, we were treated to a Gareth Bale-inspired trailer, while this week, the first official demo was dropped.
As if that wasn’t enough to sate your appetite, yesterday, EA also unveiled the list of Legends who will be making their way over to the Ultimate Team mode later this month.
With the likes of Pele, Hernan Crespo, Paolo Maldini and Dennis Bergkamp making the shortlist, you can torture your opposition with a squad consisting of a strike force of Messi and Pele, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Pires, even Gareth Bale and Andriy Shevchenko.
EA have revealed they had a hard time narrowing down the shortlist of footballing greats, and had to whittle down a...
Last week, we were treated to a Gareth Bale-inspired trailer, while this week, the first official demo was dropped.
As if that wasn’t enough to sate your appetite, yesterday, EA also unveiled the list of Legends who will be making their way over to the Ultimate Team mode later this month.
With the likes of Pele, Hernan Crespo, Paolo Maldini and Dennis Bergkamp making the shortlist, you can torture your opposition with a squad consisting of a strike force of Messi and Pele, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Pires, even Gareth Bale and Andriy Shevchenko.
EA have revealed they had a hard time narrowing down the shortlist of footballing greats, and had to whittle down a...
- 9/11/2013
- by Joseph Dempsey
- Obsessed with Film
Since buying Chelsea for £140 million back in July 2003, Roman Abramovich has ploughed his Russian roubles into transforming Chelsea from a team capable of pushing for a top four spot to a team capable of winning the Premier League and Champions League.
The likes of Petr Cech, Hernan Crespo, Arjen Robben and Andriy Shevchenko were ushered in initially under the guidance of one Jose Mourinho, though eight more managers have followed since.
These players helped, in their own way, to transform the Blues into a team of world beaters, and Abramovich’s era has seen them win three Premier League titles, four Fa Cups and the Champions League.
The £50 million capture of Fernando Torres from Liverpool in 2011 only added to the vast fortune Abramovich has invested in bringing quality players to Stamford Bridge, and he has since spent a further £100 million on bringing the likes of Eden Hazard, Thorgan Hazard, Marko Marin,...
The likes of Petr Cech, Hernan Crespo, Arjen Robben and Andriy Shevchenko were ushered in initially under the guidance of one Jose Mourinho, though eight more managers have followed since.
These players helped, in their own way, to transform the Blues into a team of world beaters, and Abramovich’s era has seen them win three Premier League titles, four Fa Cups and the Champions League.
The £50 million capture of Fernando Torres from Liverpool in 2011 only added to the vast fortune Abramovich has invested in bringing quality players to Stamford Bridge, and he has since spent a further £100 million on bringing the likes of Eden Hazard, Thorgan Hazard, Marko Marin,...
- 1/29/2013
- by Joseph Dempsey
- Obsessed with Film
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