A children’s charity is to auction a bag full of kit donated by a former Premier League footballer.
Watford and Scotland’s former midfielder Ikechi Anya has given his signed shirts and boots to KitAid, who give football shirts to underprivileged youths and adults around the world
The newly signed Derby County player’s kit will join the collection of items donated by Hornets fans at Vicarage Road during the recent WFC day.
Derrick Williams, who founded KitAid in 1998, said: “I would really like to thank Ikechi for his recent donation and support him and wish him all the very best at Derby.”
The Watford shirts will soon be heading to a youth team in Zimbabwe when KitAid’s Millyrand Charigwati, 22, goes home to visit family in December.
Ex-Watford and England manager, Graham Taylor, is KitAid’s patron. He said: “The willingness of football clubs at all levels to have kit collection days, shows that football as a whole does indeed have a caring side.”
This is not the first time that Anya has supported a charity, he dropped off Watford and Scotland tracksuits to Oxfam in St Albans a visit in December last year.
Since the charity begun, more than 325,000 items of kit have been sent around the world.
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