Global United FC
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| Surname | Global United Football Club | |
| Seat | worldwide | |
| founding | 2009 | |
| Colours | Blue green | |
| Board | Lutz Pfannenstiel | |
| Website | www.globalunitedfc.com | |
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Global United FC is an international, registered in Germany, non-profit association that works for the climate and environment by increasing the attention to these topics. Well over 500 well-known - former and partly still active - football professionals, football coaches and football referees from all over the world are available for benefit games, campaign weeks and individual projects in endangered or unusual locations. In the meantime, other personalities from the media, entertainment and business have joined the club's motto "We love football. We love our planet".
The management of the association consists of the founder and board member Lutz Pfannenstiel , the chairman of the supervisory board Fredi Bobic and the operationally responsible general secretary / CEO Rainer Hahn . In addition, there are Geert Brusselers and Kristian Baumgärtner as members of the Supervisory Board and Tilmann Meuser , Thomas Richter and Bernhard Heinisch as members of the Advisory Board. The Global United FC Foundation NPC, based in Johannesburg, was founded in 2018 to further implement the activities in Africa.
The idea for Global United FC was launched in 2009 by Lutz Pfannenstiel . After the first successful projects, the association was founded in 2011.
Projects
In the fight against the negative consequences of global warming , Global United FC eV provides immediate help to people affected by climate disasters and supports preventive projects in emerging and developing countries as well as in industrialized nations. Global United FC aid projects include the Pakistan Flood Relief Project, global water projects, a biogas project in India and the TransAtlantic Climate Institute .
Games and venues
To achieve its climate protection goals, Global United FC plays against local club teams and national teams with local personalities around the world.
Selection of games:
- January 2nd, 2010: DSF-Hallenmasters , Riesa , Germany
- January 9, 2010: MDR-Hallenmasters , Zwickau , Germany
- April 2010: Cairo , Egypt
- May 2010: Dayton , United States
- May 2010: Johannesburg , South Africa
- May 26, 2010: Windhoek , Namibia (1-1 against African Stars ; 0-1 against African Legends)
- December 2010: King George Island , Antarctica
- April 3, 2011: Otavi , Namibia
- March 15-18 , 2017: Gobabis , Namibia
Squad
The roster of Global United FC is made up of players from all corners of the world:
Africa
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Angola : Akwá
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Cameroon : Jules Onana , Alphonse Tchami
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Democratic Republic of the Congo : Michél Mazingu-Dinzey
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Ghana : Anthony Baffoe , Samuel Kuffour , Anthony Yeboah
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Morocco : Mustapha Hadji
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Namibia : Collin Benjamin , Amos Shiyuka
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Nigeria : Jonathan Akpoborie , Sunday Oliseh
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South Africa : Phil Masinga , Mark Fish , Pierre Issa , Lucas Radebe
Asia and Oceania
Europe
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Albania : Rudi Vata
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Austria : Andreas Herzog , Toni Polster , Ivica Vastić
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Belgium : Jean-Marie Pfaff , Tom Saintfiet
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Bosnia and Herzegovina : Sergej Barbarez
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Bulgaria : Krassimir Balakow , Daniel Borimirow
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Croatia : Niko Kovač , Robert Prosinečki , Zvonimir Soldo
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Czech Republic : Radek Bejbl , Michal Kadlec , Pavel Kuka
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Denmark : Stig Töfting
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England : John Barnes
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Finland : Jari Litmanen , Mika Nurmela
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France : Christian Karembeu , Zinedine Zidane
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Germany : Fredi Bobic , Guido Buchwald , Lothar Matthäus
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Hungary : József Kiprich
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Ireland : Denis Irwin , Mike Phelan
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Moldova : Igor Ivanovich Dobrowolski
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Netherlands : Ronald de Boer , Pierre van Hooijdonk
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Norway : Håvard Flo , Henning Berg , Ronny Johnsen
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Portugal : Hugo Almeida , Abel Silva, António Veloso
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Poland : Marek Leśniak
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Romania : Ioan Lupescu , Dan Petrescu , Adrian Popescu
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Russia : Dmitri Anatoljewitsch Alenitschew , Rinat Faisrachmanowitsch Dassajew
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Scotland : Scot Gemmill , Richard Gough
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Serbia : Miroslav Stević
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Sweden : Andreas Ravelli , Henrik Larsson , Stefan Schwarz
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Switzerland : Urs Meier , Ciriaco Sforza , Jörg Stiel
North America
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Canada : Adrian Cann, Martin Nash -
Costa Rica : Douglas Sequeira
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Jamaica : Darryl Powell -
Mexico : Ramón Ramírez
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Trinidad and Tobago : Ramon Bailey -
United States : Marcelo Balboa , Thomas Dooley , Tony Sanneh
South America
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Brazil : Aldair , Cafu , Elber , Jorginho , Diego Morais , Rafinha
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Bolivia : Marco Etcheverry
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Chile : Francisco Rojas, Pedro Reyes -
Ecuador : Daniel Reinoso -
Paraguay : José Luis Chilavert , José Saturnino Cardozo
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Global United FC: Our Missions & Goals ( Memento from September 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Global United to play African Stars, Namibia Sport, May 13, 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
