{"id":25789,"date":"2018-01-02T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juanmata8.com\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=25789"},"modified":"2018-01-03T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:22:30","slug":"the-guardian-footballer-of-the-year-2017-juan-mata","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/juanmata8.com\/en\/new\/the-guardian-footballer-of-the-year-2017-juan-mata\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manchester United midfielder\u2019s Common Goal project, in which players and managers donate 1% of their salary to charity, makes him a worthy recipient.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian Footballer of the Year is an award given to a player who has done something truly remarkable, whether by overcoming adversity, helping others or setting a sporting example by acting with exceptional honesty.\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/blog\/2016\/dec\/29\/fabio-pisacane-guardian-footballer-of-year-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">The inaugural winner was Fabio Pisacane in 2016.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"es\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Guardian footballer of the year is \u2026 Juan Mata. He talks here with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donaldgmcrae?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@donaldgmcrae<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9QGl9NQrvY\">https:\/\/t.co\/9QGl9NQrvY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guardian sport (@guardian_sport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian_sport\/status\/948102965298069505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">2 de enero de 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very simple idea,\u201d Mata says with typical understatement as he describes the remarkable\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.common-goal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Common Goal initiative<\/a>\u00a0he helped to launch in August. \u201cBut some of the best ideas are simple ones and, when it comes to football, the power of the game is incredible. Anyone who understands football will know why we are so hopeful and ambitious with Common Goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In less than five months Mata has been joined by 35 other football people from 17 countries in donating 1% of their salaries to Common Goal. All the money raised will be given to football charities where it is needed most \u2013 and the project now includes, beyond the players, its first manager, administrator and startup initiative.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"es\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;We can show the wider football industry that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CommonGoal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CommonGoal<\/a> needs to happen &amp; will happen, because it\u2019s right. \u26bd\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IbBhwKowGy\">https:\/\/t.co\/IbBhwKowGy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Common Goal (@CommonGoalOrg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CommonGoalOrg\/status\/893496596352184320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">4 de agosto de 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The players, of course, are the real drivers of Common Goal and Mata has been joined by high-profile internationals such as\u00a0Mats Hummels,\u00a0Giorgio Chiellini, Shinji Kagawa and Kasper Schmeichel \u2013 as well as leading women footballers in\u00a0Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. Julian Nagelsmann,\u00a0the 30-year-old who has forged a dynamic reputation at Hoffenheim, became the first head coach to join Common Goal in October while Aleksander Ceferin, the Uefa president,\u00a0also pledged 1% of his salary to the cause.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"es\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">An historic day for football. Thanks Aleksander for joining the movement. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CommonGoal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CommonGoal<\/a> \u26bd\ufe0f\u2665\ufe0f?<\/p>\n<p>Un d\u00eda hist\u00f3rico para el f\u00fatbol. Gracias Aleksander por unirte al movimiento. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v5Vk89iq9b\">pic.twitter.com\/v5Vk89iq9b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Juan Mata Garc\u00eda (@juanmata8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juanmata8\/status\/935900515891863552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">29 de noviembre de 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have such strong memories from South Africa when we won the World Cup with Spain in 2010. We saw the passion for the game among kids there and it was the same when I went to Mumbai this year. Everywhere you go kids are playing football. Even if there is not much grass you have four sweaters which make the two goals. The kids just play.\u201d Mata stresses his typical belief. \u201cI am proud to accept this award on behalf of everyone at Common Goal. This was never going to be about me. It is about Common Goal \u2013 and all of us who share the belief that football can make the world a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Common Goal is the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfootballworld.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streetfootballworld<\/a>, an NGO which has developed a global network of more than 120 local charities that use football as a tool to tackle social issues, ranging from gender equality in India to peacebuilding in Colombia and refugee integration in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United midfielder\u2019s Common Goal project, in which players and managers donate 1% of their salary to charity, makes him a worthy recipient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25787,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categoria-noticia":[42],"class_list":["post-25789","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-noticia-common-goal-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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