Tottenham Hotspur’s star strikers Jessica Naz and Harry Kane speak to Gordon Waddell about going for goals off the pitch in their work with the club’s charitable foundation.
SPURS’ GOALS FOR GOOD T
HE club motto is Audere est Facere. To dare is to do. For two of its top players – Jessica Naz and Harry Kane – this means acting decisively not only on the pitch, but off, as they roll up their sleeves to get involved with Tottenham Hotspur Foundation (THF). They’re strikers who care as well as dare.
Both are local kids made good – Kane the goal-scoring icon for a generation of Spurs and England fans, and Naz bristling with potential as a youth international and part of the club’s Women’s Super League side on the rise. Both are as committed to being role models and giving back to their communities off the park as they are to earning their adulation on it. For 14 years, the Foundation has used the power of football to reach into the four multicultural London boroughs and 1.2 million people it serves, tackling their struggles, creating work, battling socio-economic hardship and promoting health and wellbeing. It has been supported by a total of £3.1 million in funding from Postcode Heroes Trust since 2013. ›
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Above: Spurs striker Harry Kane is fired up about the chance to make a difference Right: Jessica Naz at a girls tournament hosted by the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
