HAMPSHIRE model Lucy Pinder helped kick-off an extraordinary soccer challenge for a Southampton-based charity.
She donned an England shirt to launch Kick4Life a drive to set a record for footall juggling in Germany as David Beckham and the rest of the team shoots for World Cup glory.
The Kick4Life team, including founder Pete Fleming, 24, from Southampton, is hoping to complete one million keepy-uppys during the month-long tournament.
The five-man squad must also include in their challenge a fan from each of the 32 competing nations.
Pete said: "The challenge will be tough, It will mean doing more 30,000 keepy-uppys everyday and we will have to travel the length and breadth of Germany to find fans from all 32 competing nations."
The charity, which was launched earlier this year, used football as a way of tackling poverty and disease in Africa.
Pete set up the charity last year after he and his brother Steve kicked a football ten marathons in ten days across Malawi in May 2005 and realised the impact that the game can have in fighting the Aids virus.
Kick4Life aims to raise money for the building of a football community centre in Lesotho that will provide HIV and Aids education.
Lucy, who is Kick4Life's ambassador is taking part in a photo shoot on Saturday when England play Paraguay in their first match but she says she hopes she would be able to watch the game. She said: "I should be able to watch but I will be sitting on my own in a hotel room when I do. It is such a good idea to use football to raise money for charity, so many people are into football it is worldwide."
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