more good deeds

The PSA our boys filmed back two weeks ago is out!  A handful of the players – with Iker and Pepe appearing twice – of the Spanish national team stars in a public service announcement for the United Nations Development Program’s 8 Millennium Development Goals.  These were agreed upon in the year 2000 by 189 nations, and the objective is the reach these goals by the year 2015.

The goals are:  One. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.  Two. Achieve universal primary education.  Three. Promote gender equality and empower women.  Four. Reduce child mortality.  Five. Improve maternal health.  Six. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.  Seven. Ensure environmental sustainability.  Eight. Develop a Global Partnership for Development.

Important things, no?

For a translation of the video and screencaps, read more (it’s worth it, I promise you, because our boys are such good looking ambassadors for this cause, since they can just about convince me to support anything).

Xavi: winning in Europe.

Pepe: getting a star.

Villa: becoming champions of the world.

Iker: many objectives have been reached, but nothing will be as great as achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Torres: our rivals are poverty.

Xabi: infant mortality and AIDS.

Cesc: we will defeat them.

Llorente: and we will help universal education to win.

Capdevila: maternal health.

Pepe: and equality.

Sergio: we will make an effort for the environment.

Santi: and to achieve worldwide development.

Iniesta: join our team.

Iker: and together we will achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Del Bosque: there’s still a lot left to win.

By the way, there’s also this PSA starring Zizou and Didier Drogba.

To see what you can do to help out this very important cause, go here.  More information can be found here or here.