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EVER WONDERED WHY CHILDREN ESCORT FOOTBALL PLAYERS TO THE PITCH?

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In most football games, we see young children who walk with footballers from the entrance tunnel to the pitch, and many of us wonder why this happens or probably given wrong opinion of why.



The act of children walking with footballers to the pitch started in the 90's and it has become norm since then. These children are usually members of youth teams or contest winners. Since 2002, World Cup or European Championship escorts are selected in a competition hosted by McDonald's, sponsor of the event.

There are different reasons this is done.

1. Promoting children rights campaigns.

2. bringing the element of innocence to the game

3. Fulfilling children's dream of meeting their favorite star

4. To make money off the games, it should be noted that parents sometimes are asked to pay to feature their kids.

5. Protection of players; this is also a means of protecting football players from fans violence. Sometimes we see object being thrown at footballers. The presence of small children with them could avoid this, especially when the players are very close to the fan.

In some occasions we see footballers have been seen with their mothers as escort, to mark mothers day. Ajax Amsterdam did this in a match to mark mothers day. Source: Quora.com

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