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Peter
Schmeichel wins new honours as he becomes a Reading
Champion
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Reading The Game Utd! Gordon
Taylor and Peter Schmeichel join 12 new clubs
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Playing away
from home - the National Literacy Trust (l-r Lis Coulthard,
Richard Sved, Jim Sells, Neil McClelland and Tania Rhodes-Taylor) |
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The excitement was tangible
on Tuesday September 24th at Manchester City's Maine Road
Ground as 24 local children gathered to hear their hero Peter
Schmeichel tell them why he was proud to be a Reading Champion,
and why they should become one too. The children's adoration
was written all over their faces, and it is this hero worship
and desire to emulate that the National Literacy Trust and
their football partners are harnessing to promote literacy
and lifelong learning through football.
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Reading
The Game was launched by PFA Chief Executive Gordon Taylor
who called for every professional football club to nominate
a Reading Champion to join the ranks. Current Reading
Champions including Rio Ferdinand, Robbie Earle, Lucas
Radebe and Stuart Pearce, another Manchester City star.
After the brief speeches children's author Melvin Burgess
read from one of his award winning books, and there then
followed a RIF book distribution where all the children
got to choose and keep a new free title of their choice.
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| Gordon Taylor, Melvin Burgess and Peter Schmeichel |
Two of the 24 children with their free books |
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Twelve clubs have already signed
up to work with Reading The Game this year. As the children left
at the end of the day, showing off their new books and arguing over
who Schmeichel spoke to the most, you could be confident that this
scene would be repeated across the country as 60 children in each
club get to chose 3 free books a year to keep as well as a chance
to listen to their heroes talk about their own love of reading.
Click here
to view the press release.
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