Germany’s Mario Goetze’s 2014 World Cup-winning boot rases Dhs8.9m for charity

Sport360 staff 17:41 06/12/2014
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  • Scoring for a cause: Germany's Mario Goetze donates his World Cup winning boot to a charity event.

    The boot with which Mario Goetze struck the World Cup-winning goal this year has raised €2m (US$2.45m, Dhs8.99m) for the German charity event “A Heart for Children”, the organisers revealed on Saturday. 

    — Germany (@DFB_Team_EN) December 6, 2014 

    The 22-year-old Bayern Munich star donated to the charity the left boot with which he scored the only goal, in extra-time, aginst Argentina and seal Germany’s fourth World Cup title in Brazil.

    All of the money will go to the German charity which helps disadvantaged children.

    “That is overwhelming, I would have never dreamed of such a figure,” Goetze told German daily Bild.

    “Two million is such a huge sum, the good thing is that it’s for a good cause and not just for a boot.”

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