LONDON: The Football Association (FA), English football’s governing body, announced an extension of its partnership agreement with global fast food giant McDonald’s till 2022.
Since the last 16 years, this collaboration has focused on supporting thousands of grassroots football clubs across the UK.
McDonald’s is the longest standing supporter of grassroots development of UK football and it plans to launch a new participation programme that will see ‘turn up and play’ coaching sessions and community football days take place across the country. The target is to make over 500,000 children play football for the first time across 5 million hours of time on the field.
With the company also in partnership with the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland FAs, this support is extended across the UK.
And some of the top players from each nation, McDonald’s football ambassadors, were in north London this month to kick-off the programme with an event at the Old Finchleians Memorial Ground.
England’s Jordan Pickford and Nikita Parris were representing the Three Lions, with Scotland’s Charlie Mulgrew and Caroline Weir, Wales duo James Chester and Natasha Harding and Northern Ireland’s Kyle Lafferty and Rachel Furness all working with youngsters at the venue.
