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Red Bulls Home Opener To Feature Celebrity Match To Benefit Books For Kids

February 23, 2009 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
New York Red Bulls News Release


SECAUCUS, NJ (February 23, 2009) - Red Bull New York announced today that a celebrity game will be among the pre-match festivities as the team opens its 2009 Major League Soccer (MLS) home schedule against the New England Revolution at 7:30 PM on Saturday, March 28 at Giants Stadium (TV: Fox Soccer Channel; Radio: WADO 1280 AM)

The celebrity game kicks off at 5:00 PM and will feature notable celebrities from the worlds of soccer, television, movies, radio, and music. The match will be promoted through numerous mediums, with give-aways as well as a contest. The contest winner will watch the game from the field with the players and celebrities. The Red Bulls will donate a portion of each game ticket sold to the Books for Kids Foundation.

For 23 years, Books for Kids has been responsible for distributing over five million books to needy children, in the New York area and across the nation. The mission of Books for Kids Foundation (www.booksforkids.org) is to promote literacy among all children with a special emphasis on low income, disadvantaged children of pre-school age. Books for Kids creates libraries, donates books and partners with world renowned literacy programs to help develop the critical foundation and skills which these young children need to be successful in life.

The celebrities scheduled to participate in the match include:

- Werner Roth, Former New York Cosmos

- V Factory, band from Radio Disney

- Lance Reddick, actor in Lost, the Fringe, the Wire.

- Robert Funaro, Emmy nominated actor who has appeared in The Sopranos and American Gangster and the new prime time series The Unusuals

- Michael Johns, American Idol Season 7 favorite

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