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By JACK BELL
Published: August 3, 2008
Soccer is more than a game to 18-year-old Eli Pearl.
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So perhaps it is fitting that progressive laboratories a winning bid in an outline of progressive education eBay auction will have Pearl coming to New York to play in Tuesday’s charity tournament as part of progressive auto a four-on-four squad with a player from his favorite team, F.C. Barcelona.
“I bid because I believe in progressive systemic sclerosis the cause,” Lynn Hirshfield, Pearl’s mother, said in a teddy roosevelt and the progressive movement telephone interview from their home in Venice Beach, Calif. “It’s fulfilling a dream of a lifetime for my kid. And that’s pretty cool.”
The charity game, which will start at about 5 p.m. at Hudson River Park’s Chelsea Waterside Park (at 12th Avenue and West 23rd Street across from Chelsea Piers), is for the benefit of Malaria No More. The event is free and open to the public. The group and Barcelona progressive grocer women leaders will announce a partnership Monday to help raise money for what Malaria No More said was progressive equine nutrition the No. 1 killer of African children younger than 5. The disease is among the most easily preventable with a basic piece of equipment — a $10 mosquito net.
Barcelona will be in New York on the second leg of jonah goldberg progressive wilson its United States tour to play the Red Bulls in East Rutherford, N.J., on Wednesday. (The club plays Chivas Guadalajara of Mexico in Chicago on Sunday.)
Barcelona’s partnership with progressive soups Malaria No More socialist progressive is the latest humanitarian effort by Barcelona, which from 2006 to 2011 will forgo a potential $20 million from jersey sponsorship by putting Unicef on the front of its shirts.
The charity tournament will be composed of 16 four- or five-player teams in ovation progressive lenses eight-minute games. Each team will include a Barcelona player and players from an American Youth Soccer Organization team. One roster spot was put up for auction on eBay, which was won by Hirshfield with a bid of $2,125.
“My family is from Argentina, and Eli is also a Boca Juniors fan,” said Hirshfield, who is the vice president for business development for Participant Media, a company that has produced films like “Good Night, and Good interlaced or progressive tvs Luck,” “The Kite Runner,” “Charlie Wilson’s War” and “An Inconvenient Truth.” fox dhx progressive The company’s founder and chairman, Jeff Skoll, was the first president of eBay.
“When I told him I won the auction, I called Eli, and he said, ‘I don’t deserve this,’ ” Hirshfield said. “He still can’t believe it. I guess it’s like going to see the Rolling Stones for me. He’s progressive on ice tv program mad for progressive account sales rep Thierry Henry and that Bojan kid,” referring to striker Bojan Krkic. But Pearl’s favorite player, the Argentine striker Lionel Messi, is in China for the Olympics.
AYSO, a nationwide outfit that encompasses 600,000 players, coaches and parents (and is led by the progressive rock internet radio former Cosmos star Rick Davis), signed on in support of Malaria No More. It is encouraging its players to raise money to help fight the disease. The top two fund-raisers between now and December will win a trip to Spain to see Barcelona play at its home stadium, Camp Nou.
For Pearl, participating in an event to benefit Malaria No More is an extension, his mother said, of his progressive education at the Wildwood School in Los Angeles. He has also made community-service trips to Vietnam, Guatemala and Argentina.
“I think this is going progressive business to help bring this message to American kids, and that’s wonderful,” Hirshfield said. “Eli’s leaving on Monday. You know, the last time I put him on a plane, he was going to Argentina. He had his iPod on in the Dallas airport and missed his flight!”
The chances of that happening this time: zero.
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