Top 10 Most Charitable Soccer Players That'll Surprise You

We admire the most famous soccer (or football) players for their amazing sports skill, but, in fact, there’s another good reason to look up to them: their acts of incredible kindness. Stories of super stars helping children, the poor and the starving and doing other great things for charity will surely melt your heart.
The Neymar Jr. Project Institute helps thousands of kids get a good education and provide them with physical activity facilities.
In 2009, Didier Drogba donated $3 million for the reconstruction of a hospital in his hometown of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Messi’s foundation helped build 20 classrooms and get 1,600 children back to school in war-torn Syria. Along with Serena Williams, Messi worked in the “1 in 11” campaign to provide access to education to 58 million elementary-aged kids out of school in Nepal, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
Beckham helped raise $185,500 for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to prevent bullying in schools. Besides, the superstar donated all his wages when he played for Paris St. Germain.
One of the greatest soccer players of all time comes from the rough back streets of Marseille, France. Zinedine “Zizou” Zidane hasn’t forgotten his troubled childhood and has been actively working to improve the life of a new generation contributing to initiatives in over 27 countries.
Cristiano Ronaldo donated over $7,000,000 after the terrible 2015 earthquake in Nepal. He also sold his Golden Shoe Award and donated his Champions League bonus of over $720,000 to charity. Ronaldo is an official Save the Children's Ambassador and helps individual children and families as well.

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TIMESTAMPS
Neymar 1:04
Didier Drogba 2:14
Lionel Messi 3:20
Dirk Kuyt 4:24
Mesut Ozil 5:53
David Beckham 6:32
Michael Essien 7:43
Craig Bellamy 8:30
Zinedine Zidane 9:19
Cristiano Ronaldo 10:06

SUMMARY
-Neymar partnered with the “Waves for Water” project to bring attention to the problem of clean water shortage for thousands of people in need in his home country of Brazil. He also hosts and takes part in charity games on a regular basis.
-The Didier Drogba Foundation is doing a lot to help impoverished communities in Ivory Coast and all over Africa, like giving local kids access to education and healthcare.
-From his extensive charitable work with UNICEF to his Lionel Messi Foundation, which helps other foundations and organizations like those doing medical research in Spain and Argentina, Messi has done so much good for a lot of people.
-Kuyt’s foundation supports 64 projects specializing in giving disabled kids a chance to take part in sports and helping homeless children.
-When his team won the World Cup in 2014, Ozil donated all of his earnings for this victory. That money, around $370,000, was enough to sponsor surgeries for 23 kids in Brazil.
-A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador with a special focus on Sports for Development and founding member of the Malaria No More UK Leadership Council, David Beckham has also done a lot with the Help for Heroes campaign, whose aim is aiding injured servicemen and -women coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq.
-The Michael Essien Foundation works to provide health care and education facilities, libraries, clean drinking water, and public restrooms in his hometown of Awutu Breku, Ghana.
-The Craig Bellamy Foundation’s biggest project was starting a football academy in Sierra Leone. It gave scholarships to local boys aged 10 to 13 with athletic and academic potential so that they could get a good education and play soccer.
-Zidane regularly takes part in charity games, the most notable of which is the “Match against Poverty”, which brings together soccer stars from all over the world.
-Childhood hunger and obesity, conserving biodiversity, cancer research, and funding a cancer center in his homeland of Portugal, seems like there’s no cause Ronaldo isn’t fighting for.

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