Jan Vertonghen honoured with prestigious award for charity work
At the recent World Football Summit, Belgian ex-footballer Jan Vertonghen has received the Marcus Rashford Award for his work with his charity foundation.
Vertonghen’s foundation aims to stimulate children to move, play, and be creative, and his organisation has funded plenty of little neighbourhood squares where you can play sports, and myriad other efforts in the same vain. You can take football out of the man, but you can’t take the man out of football, right?
The Marcus Rashford Award, which is extended to initiatives that have a positive impact on the world, means a lot to Vertonghen. “This recognition gives us energy to offer chances to even more children,” the former defensive stronghold for the Red Devils has said in gratitude, also underlining the inspiration that Rashford is to many both on and off the pitch. Receiving this award means that the Jan Vertonghen Foundation is now internationally recognised.
Vertonghen’s organisation “has transformed hospitals into places of play, dignity, and hope for vulnerable children,” according to a co-founder of the World Football Summit. A mirroring of what he brought us Belgians when playing for the Red Devils, if we dare say.