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NSC Minnesota Stars to Host Kick It Back Drive to Benefit Haiti

August 19, 2010 - U.S. Soccer Federation D-2 (USSF D-2)
Minnesota United FC News Release


BLAINE, Minn. (August 19, 2010) - In coordination with Kick It Back and The Sanneh Foundation, the NSC Minnesota Stars announced a collection drive to benefit Haitian youth soccer. The Stars will collect new and gently used soccer shoes and equipment at the gates during their Sept. 18 home finale against the Vancouver Whitecaps.

"I am happy that The Sanneh Foundation is partnering with the Stars in another philanthropic program to help children around the world," Tony Sanneh said. "It goes to show that the organization is community based and intune with the need to be apart of the greater good and help the underserved."

The Sanneh Foundation founded the Kick It Back program in 2009 while Sanneh, a St. Paul native and member of the 2002 U.S. World Cup team, was a member of the Los Angeles Galaxy. Sanneh and his teammates kicked off the campaign by donating their own equipment in the hopes that others would follow the example through all levels of soccer. Since its inception, the Kick it Back program has provided shoes and soccer equipment for youth in Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Los Angeles, Namibia, South Africa and Haiti.

Since March 2010, the Sanneh Foundation and Los Angeles Galaxy Foundation have sponsored the Haitian Initiative, which provides soccer-based youth programming, aid and equipment to Haiti as it rebuilds from the January 12 earthquake near Port-au-Prince. In July, the Haitian Initiative sponsored an under-15 L'Athletique d'Haiti boys soccer team while it competed in the V Elite tournament at the Schwan's USA CUP, presented by PUMA at the National Sports Center in Blaine.

"Having the team from Haiti during USA CUP was one of the highlights of the tournament, and it did so much to illuminate all the work Tony and his foundation are doing to help the less fortunate, both on and off the field," said Stars general manager Kris Bjerkness.

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