With the MLS season heating up in the run to the play-offs, soccer fans everywhere are gearing up for the start of the European season and for me, the opening of the English Premier League.
The English leagues opening game of the season is a charity game known as the Community Shield. The game, which is played between the winners of the FA Cup and the Premier League champions raises money for charities, although that is not always been the purpose of the match, nor the participants. Between 1974, when thet Community Shield match (then called the Charity Sheild) was first played as the prologue to the season and 2000, the game helped raise some $10 million that has been distributed to charities nominated by the participating clubs. That may not sound like a great deal, but the clubs also run their own charity operations.
This year, FA Cup Winners Chelsea will take on the Premier League Champions Manchester United at Wembly stadium on Sunday. The rest of the league will begin matches on August 11. I can't wait!!
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