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Thank you to all the Wild and Free donors!

9/7/2021

 

Thank you to all the

​Wild and Free donors!

Matt Bracken shakes hands after Wild and Free delivers soccer equipment to the team manager of the Mavunguane soccer team in Mozambique. An image from the Rhino Cup Champions League season in 2017.
Matt Bracken shakes hands after Wild and Free delivers soccer equipment to the team manager of the Mavunguane soccer team in Mozambique. The 2017 Rhino Cup marked the start of a new journey for change.
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Being able to hand over soccer kits to the community in Mozambique was like Christmas in April 2017, for us and them! 

We want the soccer league we're developing to be official so it uplifts morale and gets them excited. Shoes, nets, balls, referee gear, whistles, field flags, we've got it all! 
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Thank you to our Wild and Free Foundation donors for making this possible.
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Good morning on the 12th of April, 2017 at 6:30 am, Mozambique. We just want to say hi to you and thank you to our donors. Look at what we're doing. We are bringing happiness, we're bringing soccer, we're bringing sports, hope, love, peace, and all that great stuff.
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Matt Bracken is sitting next to the soccer equipment that will be delivered to various soccer teams in Mozambique. An image from the Rhino Cup Champions League season in 2017.
Matt Bracken is sitting next to the soccer equipment that will be delivered to various soccer teams in Mozambique. An image from the 2017 Rhino Cup.

So we've got three deliveries for today. We have shoes and cleats going to three different teams. We're excited about that. 

We have soccer nets, which is a big deal. You know, it's just not the same. Just like in basketball, when you shoot on a hoop or a goal with no net, it's just not quite as fun. 
We have referee gear, so they're becoming very official.
In total, we have eight teams. It's really forming here and it's really exciting, and thanks to all of you for all your donations, we just get to be Santa Claus today and deliver happiness because of you. 

Thank you, Wild and Free donors. It's going to be a good day. Thank you for the happiness.
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Matt Bracken deliver soccer equipment to the soccer team of Mucacaza in Mozambique. An image from the 2017 Rhino Cup season.
Matt Bracken deliver soccer equipment to the soccer team of Mucacaza in Mozambique, during the 2017 Rhino Cup season.

So for the other eight teams, they already have their gear and now we’re just bringing them the referee gear, just extras, so we want the league to be as official as possible, so it leads to better morale.
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We got everything just to make the games as official as possible. Especially for the guys that are the referees and the linesmen, as when they get a flag and their uniform, they are official referees, and they take pride in that.

Matt Bracken with Orlando
Matt Bracken with Orlando "Watch" Cossa, after Wild and Free delivered soccer boots to the soccer team of Club de Corumana in Mozambique, for the 2017 Rhino Cup season.

We found, through feedback and through the guys playing for six months now, that the shoes wear out really quickly, and the hard and tough terrain chews the soccer balls very quickly, so it seems every six months we're going to have to get teams new shoes and soccer balls. 

So, soccer cleats and soccer balls are a big must. This is the recurring theme of these conditions, and we have to raise money for them constantly. 

The Rhino Cup league is growing, one game and soccer ball at a time.

Thanks to the Wild and Free Donors, we appreciate everything.  Thank you, everybody.

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