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Places up for grabs for the first ever women’s Football Aid charity match!

Wrigley’s Extra®, the official chewing gum of the Premier League, has teamed up with Football Aid to organise the first ever ‘Live the Dream’ charity football experience for women.  

Players will compete on the hallowed turf of a top Premier League team, play alongside the country’s rising female footballing stars and rub shoulders with celebrities at the event on May 21st 2009 at Goodison Park in Liverpool.

To be in with a chance of winning this once in a lifetime prize ladies need to go to www.extra90plus.com and enter the competition. The lucky winners will enjoy the complete professional football experience at Goodison Park; they will be instructed by a special mystery guest manager as they lace their boots and prepare for the game, they will jog down the players tunnel and out onto the pitch whilst being filmed as if they were actually playing on TV. Their team mates could include celebrity football fans and players from an Everton side who are currently second in the FA Tesco Women’s Premier League.

With star England players such as Kelly Smith, Karen Carney and Alex Scott crossing the Atlantic to play in the new Women’s Professional Soccer League in the US, Gary Townsend, the Chief Executive of Everton’s Charity Foundation sees this event as a chance to promote the women’s game in this country; “It is great that Wrigley’s Extra is helping to promote the women’s game and we are looking forward to hosting them at Goodison Park in May. Hopefully this event will encourage girls to have a go at football and go some way to help nurture the grassroots talent that I know we have in this country.”  

Previously these ‘Live the Dream’ charity football games have only been open to men but Wrigley’s Extra® has helped Football Aid to realise the first all-women’s event as part of their Extra 90+ campaign. This campaign has seen Extra® donate £1,000 for every goal scored after 90 minutes in the Barclays Premier League this season; so far 51 goals have been scored in these minutes that matter resulting in £51,000 going to charity.