Ronaldinho scores big for kids

NOTE: This post is republished from the January 18 edition of the Amway Media Blog.

AC Milan forward and global soccer star Ronaldinho is proving to be worthy of the Golden Foot award he received late last year in more ways than one. With a hat trick in the January 17 match against Siena, he brought the construction of a children’s sports center $30,000 closer to reality.

That’s because each time Ronaldinho scores a goal, the Amway One by One Campaign for Children contributes $10,000 to the AC Milan Foundation which will fund the recreational center for children affected by the devastation of the April 2009 earthquake in the Abruzzi region of Italy. A member of Team Nutrilite, Ronaldinho has already helped to raise $120,000 in the 2009-10 season—11 goals from play, plus one ceremonial half-time goal that kicked off the joint Nutrilite and AC Milan “Goal by Goal” program.

What’s more, Ronaldinho has surpassed the $100,000 he and Nutrilite donated last season. And there’s still four months left in season play.

That makes every goal he scores truly worth its weight in gold.