Corporate, Small and Large business can now show their support for Canberra's A-League bid. They get a Foundation Membership and their name and logo on the website. So why not encourage your favourite small business to sign up. They can keep the membership, donate it to charity or an employee whatever they like. Click to continue reading...

The Community Shield is the annual pre-season event that pits the winner of the FA Cup against the winner of the Premier League. It's an exhibition match for charity but can often provide some tense action since it's usually contested between fierce rivals. For the first time in God knows how long (mid-90s? Click to continue reading...

FC Barcelona and MalariaNoMore.org are teaming up today for a special charity event on the upper west side - and you are invited!

The "More Than A Game" event will feature a 4 v 4 tournament, with teams including Thierry Henry, Eric Abidal, Xavi Hernandez, Rafael Marquez, Carlos Puyol, Iniesta, Bojan and Daniel Alves.

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When the Houston Dynamo and New England Revolution meet tomorrow night in the finals of Superliga 2008, they will already know what paycheck awaits them. That's because both sides have agreed to pool the first- and second-place prizes for the tournament and distribute them equally among the two squads, in protest of the league's decision to cap the tournament's bonus at 15% if an MLS team prevails. Click to continue reading...

You read that right. Dynamo defender Craig Waibel equalled the NFL record 63 yard field goal while kicking with the Houston Texans for charity. OK, so it wasn't a game situation and no one was rushing him (or whatever you call it, I don't really understand NFL to be honest) but it's still impressive. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool have completed the signing of Robbie Keane in a deal worth £20.3million but the fall-out with Tottenham over the transfer continued following more comments from Daniel Levy.

Spurs chairman Levy has dropped his complaint against Liverpool to the Premier League but insisted he did not "regard it as a transfer deal" due to the way the deal was conducted. Click to continue reading...

Craig Waibel -- a Washington grad, whoo! -- recently dropped by a Houston Texans practice to kick some field goals for charity.

The Dynamo defender wasn't bad at all, even kicking a 63-yarder! Click to continue reading...

101 Great Goals found the highlight of the old Croat juking some France '98 players in a recent charity match.

Didn't know a 40 year old could move like that. Click to continue reading...

A few pics from the charideee game... Clarence Seedorf and Michael Ballack captained the two teams for Goal4Africa's charity match in India recently. Seedorf's team was called 'Edu' (not after the ex-Arsenal midfielder), while Ballack's team was called 'Cation'. No,... Click to continue reading...

By: The Keeper
Soccer City FC

Last winter, the Premier League looked at the possibility of a 39th-game to be played abroad. The proposal was rejected by the FA at a meeting in February. Soccer City FC's newest contributor, The Keeper, adds another idea to the table.

America, get ready for the Community Shield. Click to continue reading...

Some of the biggest names in football have joined a campaign to raise funds for charity ahead of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa - Didier Drogba, Steven Gerrard, Samuel Eto'o Gennaro Gattuso,Michael Ballack to name a few.India's Baichung Bhutia also rubbed shoulders with all the big stars.

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Unofficial pic of Villa's home shirt for 08/09 This is the new Aston Villa home kit, with new sponsor Acorns - or rather, Villa have given up a lucrative sponsorship deal to support the West Midlands-based children's charity. An admirable... Click to continue reading...

Thanks to whoateallthepies via The Spoiler for this ace little set of clips of the once untouchable Ronaldinho playing in a charity match in the States this week. You might notice that he's, er, a bit bigger than you remember him. Put that aside though and bask in a few slices of unfiltered genius as only the samba star can muster. Click to continue reading...

Some of world football's biggest super stars are signed up to play in a charity match in Germany next week to help raise money for Africa. Among the players signed up to raise money for this great cause are: Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto'o, Gennaro Gattuso, Michael Ballack, and Steven Gerrard. Fans will make a donation for each goal scored by their favorite player; too bad young David Villa's not on the list. Click to continue reading...

For a charity match, looks like. But see how happy he looks to be sporting a Galaxy shirt? Even if it's not the LA Galaxy, it's perhaps a sign of things to come. Click to continue reading...

Final preparations are being made at Southend's Priory Park as the usually serene space makes way for Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra on Sunday evening (29th June).
The show - which attracted 3,600 people last year - is making a welcome return to the area, and this year Jools has invited Soft Cell lead singer Marc Almond along to perform with him. Click to continue reading...

Louis Saha has trained all summer long, attempting to regain fitness lost after a series of injuries which saw the French striker start only 5 Premier League matches last season. Come on United, get rid of these charity cases: Neville, Giggs, Saha, and Silvestre have played their fare share of games and their best years are [. Click to continue reading...

Alot of things I didn't think were possible happened yesterday.

#1 - A park in the middle of New Yorks infamous Chinatown district was packed on all ends by thousands of footie fanatics dying for a glimpse of some of their favorite stars.

#2 - I got to see TiTi Henry, Robbie Fowler, Kalou, Reyna, Altidore, Angel, Jason Kidd, Barbosa, Baron Davis and and the infamous Steve McManaman play some footie from about a half foot distance.

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Ives rips the former Captain America for participating in a charity match last night, instead of accompanying his Red Bulls to the West Coast. I can't say that I disagree.

I didn't see the match, it sounds like it was fairly harmless. However, when you're as injury prone as Reyna, and currently sitting out with an injury, why are you playing in anything? Click to continue reading...

Ruud Van Nistelrooy. Robin Van Persie. Arjen Robben. Most people can safely say that these three do not play with a sense of charity when they get the ball. The me first mentality of these players is quite pervasive. There was great relief at Old Trafford when RVN departed for Real. Robben was criticized during the 2006 World Cup by his team mates and fans for being a ball hog.

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Look for a bright splash of pink in the sea of orange at tonight's match against the French national team. The Dutch WAGS will exchange their fashionable orange ensembles for pink t-shirts to raise awareness of the 'Because I am a girl' campaign of Plan Netherlands. The campaign's goal is to improve living conditions and economic prospects for disadvantaged girls worldwide. Click to continue reading...

Ladies and gentlemen, what follows is an appeal to your hearts, your emotions, your purses and your wallets.

On July 13th 2008, yours truly, Chris O, will be doing something beyond the realms of human physical strength, mental capability and emotional limitation.

Yes folks, I will be getting up off my backside. Click to continue reading...

On 23 April 2008, the United Nations Foundation hosted civic, religious, business, and sports leaders to promote Malaria prevention throughout Africa as part of the week leading up to World Malaria Day on 25 April. MLS Commissioner Don Garber was in attendance to represent the League's ongoing partnership with the Nothing But Nets, a grassroots campaign that works to save lives through distribution of $10 bed nets. Click to continue reading...

Good afternoon all. As I do some housecleaning on SBI I found another old You Write the Caption whose winners I hadn't chosen. It was for the following amazing picture of David Beckham during a charity event in Africa.

There were plenty of great submissions. The 10 best are after the jump.

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Donating money to charity. A nice gesture to help those less fortunate than yourself. An area which is free from controversy, surely? Not if you're a footballer it seems.

Yes, the one topic you'd think couldn't possibly lead to footballer's coming under scrutiny has done just that.

Middlesbrough boss/Pizza Hut advertisement star Gareth Southgate has withdrawn all of Boro's donations to the nursing charity 'May Day for Nurses' because of the charity's website naming those players who had donated, and subsequently, letting the public know which players hadn't donated a days wages. Click to continue reading...