Together they will jointly lead Common Goal's global governing body, bringing their experience, vision, and shared commitment to strengthening Common Goal as the Home of Football for Good. Juan Mata and Sharon Thorne have been appointed Co-Chairs of Common Goal’s Board of Directors, bringing together two people who have spent their careers in very different worlds but share a belief in what can happen when people come together around a common purpose.  For Juan, a 2010 FIFA W

Photos in this article: David Calle For more than a decade, Dragones de Lavapiés has been creating opportunities for children to play football in one of Madrid's most diverse neighbourhoods. But the struggle to secure safe, accessible spaces has never gone away. Now, with their pitches unavailable, the community has taken its fight to the streets. On Friday, 9 October, Ronda de Valencia, a busy street in central Madrid, became a football pitch. Around 150 children, families

Since joining Common Goal in 2020, Dani Olmo has committed 1% of his salary to support organisations using football to create opportunities for young people and communities — including community-based programmes in Croatia, a country that has played a defining role in his own journey. For Dani Olmo, Croatia has always meant more than football. It is where he spent five formative years of his career after moving to Dinamo Zagreb as a teenager, learning the language, building

OneFootball commits 2.7% of Women’s World Cup 2027-related advertising revenues to advance gender equity through football Women’s football is growing. As the game looks towards the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 in Brazil, that growth will bring more attention, bigger audiences and increased commercial investment. The opportunity is to make sure that growth reaches beyond the top of the game. OneFootball has committed to donate 2.7% of its Women’s World Cup 2027-related adve

The latest chapter of the adidas Sportswear x Common Goal collaboration brings together South Bronx United and Design FC to tell the story of a community through a youth-designed jersey. What does the South Bronx look like through the eyes of the young people who call it home? That was the starting point for a collaboration between South Bronx United, Design FC, adidas Sportswear and Common Goal, bringing 50 young people and coaches together to create a jersey rooted in their