Stoke City Women and Girls players are attempting an extraordinary feet of running or walking a combined total of 2,000 miles in seven days to raise money for the NHS staff tackling coronavirus on the frontline.
The three senior teams will cover half of this while youth players who attend the Club’s Regional Training Centres and family will complete the other 1,000 miles with all money raised from the initiative going to the University Hospitals of North Midlands Charity.
The progress on miles will be tracked on a running app and the fundraiser will start on Monday (May 4).
Stoke City Women Head Coach Chloe Jones said: “Community engagement is key to what we do as a football club and we wanted to give something back at an unprecedented time for everybody.
“We’ve got a little bit creative and wanted to get the whole club involved, the senior players and the RTC players, and show our support for people who are working so hard to safe lives and keep us safe.
“And naturally, now we are in our off season, it will help to keep players fit as well and I hope will bring us all together again even though we can’t actually physically meet up.
“We’ve set ourselves a target of raising £1,000 and hopefully with the community’s support we can achieve our aim.”
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