FC Barcelona hands over Camp Nou title rights to Barça Foundation to raise money for Covid-19 research
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FC Barcelona continued to live up to its motto, Mes que un club – more than a club, when today it announced that it had ceded the title rights to Camp Nou for the season 2020-2021 to the Barça Foundation to raise money to invest in research projects being carried out in Catalonia and the rest of the world involved in the fight against the effects of COVID-19.
In a statement the club said that it considered as a necessity that at this time of humanitarian crisis, FC Barcelona should use all its resources to fight against the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences.
The Barça Foundation is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and it reflects the Club’s determination to contribute to the creation of a fairer and more sustainable society, especially by improving the welfare of children at risk of social exclusion in Catalonia and around the world. At the moment the Foundation helps more than 1.6 million children to improve their lives via education, programmes for violence prevention and social inclusion. For these children, who have become indirect victims of this pandemia, confined to home for more than a month, to have a future it is vital to invest in research projects to find treatment to counter Covid-19 and that help alleviate economic and social effects.
Jordi Cardoner, Barcelona’s Vice President said: “We are very happy to be able to drive forward this initiative that offers something as emblematic as the name of our stadium, so that institutions, organisations, businesses who wise may associate themselves with it and as such, contribute to the fight against COVID-19, given that their investment will used to finance research projects on the illness and projects that are working to eradicate or lessen its effects. Right now, we can quantify the effects of this health crisis but what we do know is that it will require all our resources to defeat it and for that reason it is so important that we all together make a solid, firm commitment.”
