Today, were delighted to be joined by former Aston Villa and Sweden International Marcus Allbäck, who'll be reflecting on his time at Villa Park and sharing some memories from his playing time in claret and blue.
Now, Marcus serves on the board of Sweden United a Swedish charitable foundation using football to promote diversity, inclusion and integration.
As part of his role, Marcus is supporting "The Mighty Cosmos" a new feature documentary telling the extraordinary story og a football club in Østersund founded by Sudanese refugees who fled the conflict in Dafur, found refugee in Chad and eventually rebuilt their lives in Sweden through football.
This year, the Mighty Cosmos received the Sweden United's hand award in recognition of it's work promoting social change inclusion, now Marcus is lending support to the documentary, which is raising £50,000 through Kickstarter -
(https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/holmlands/the-mighty-cosmos-documentary-feature-film) by 30th October to fund it's next stage of production.
As well as speaking to Marcus about his time at Villa, we'll be chatting abit about why this story matters and why he's backing the film before hearing from the Mighty Cosmos chairman, Alan Barker, about the club, the players remarkable journey and the documentary bringing their story to the screen.
You can visit the kickstarter by clicking the following link -
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/holmlands/the-mighty-cosmos-documentary-feature-film
#astonvilla #avfc #themightycosmos #marcusallbäck
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