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Name - Marcus Rashford

Age - 24

Date of Birth - 31st October

1997

Nationality - England Occupation - Footballer

Club - Manchester United

Marcus Rashford is a English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United and the England National Team. Marcus is a role model to many people on and off the pitch. On the pitch he is a very exciting player to watch and many youngsters most likely aspire to be able to play like him. To be able to run with the ball at such a pace and finish as well as him is how a lot of people wish they could play. An icon on the pitch and a hero off it for all of his campaigns that he has created in recent years. Here are some of the reasons why Marcus is a hero off the pitch. In October 2019, Rashford set up the ‘In The Box’ campaign with famous retail company Selfridges to give homeless people essential items over the Christmas period. This is something that he had wanted to do since he was a youth player for Manchester United. Marcus and his mother visited homeless shelters to personally hand the boxes out, this was also while sending some to a children’s home in his grandmother’s home country of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The fact that Marcus was frustrated by the limited amount of essentials he could give to people shows his dedication to keeping everyone happy.

In March 2020, during the UK lockdown, Rashford teamed up with the poverty and food waste charity FareShare to deliver meals to those in the Manchester area who are no longer receiving free school meals. 2 months after Marcus began this campaign with FareShare, he revealed that the charity had been able to provide 3 million meals across the country, this figure rose to 4 million the following month. In October 2020, Rashford was deservedly awarded an MBE for all of his works and campaigns against racism, homlessness and child hunger.