A club statement by Real Madrid reads thus: “The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Perez, spoke yesterday by phone with the president of the government, Mariano Rajoy.
“The pair talked about this contribution and other measures that the club will put in place in order to collaborate with the care of refugees that arrive in Spain. Among these measures, the club is considering various initiatives and schemes with a special focus placed on the youngest refugees.
“It will also make some of the club’s infrastructure and sports goods available to the executive’s interministerial commission that organises the system for receiving refugees.”
Meanwhile, Bayern Munich have pledged to raise €1million from a friendly match to assist the German government to tackle the migration crisis.
According to the Daily Mail, Bayern will set up a training camp which will see refugees given German classes and given meals and football equipment.
Also, Bayern Munich players will enter the field of play holding the hands of a German youngster and a refugee child when the club faces Augsburg on September 12 in the German Bundesliga.
Club chairman: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said of the plans to help the refuges: “Bayern sees it as our social responsibility to help the refugees, needy children, women and men, to help them and to accompany them in Germany.”
FC Porto of Portugal have not been left out of the act either. The club wrote a letter to UEFA telling the football governing body to urge all clubs participating in the champions league in the 2015/2016 season to donate €1 from each ticket sold for their first European home game this season.
“The football family has a long tradition in solidarity and social responsibility, so it’s impossible to close our eyes to the drama of the migrants and refugees that are trying to enter in the European soil.
“FC Porto, thru UEFA, would like to invite the 31 clubs currently in the Group Stage of the UEFA Champions League to put their efforts together and donate 1 euro per ticket sold for the first two match days. This would allow each club to have one home match to gather the donation. FC Port will assume this initiative on the 29th September, against Chelsea FA.
“UEFA has a prolific tradition in social responsibility, highlighted in UCL campaigns like the “No to Racism” battle. The situation with the migrants also requires a strong movement of the society and, of course, football cannot be apart from it.
“The forthcoming campaign of the UEFA Champions League can be even more successful if we put our efforts together. Let’s play for the migrants!”
The recent migrant crisis claims many lives each day. Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after two boats carrying at least 500 migrants capsized off Libya shores early on Thursday.
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