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And so they're taking a page out of the book from the Special Envoy for Women and Children: they've planned a football telethon. Today, the President of the FFB told us why you should support the team:

Ruperto Vicente - President, FFB "We apologize for not having it earlier because of the logistics and we're also including international partners in this telethon so it's not only here in Belize that this is going to happen. It's going to happen at the same time in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York as well."

Daniel Ortiz "The second inspiration telethon is also in the works, it supposed to happen before yours. Do you believe that the Belizean people will still support the way that they can because they will also support the cancer as well."

Ruperto Vicente "Certainly these are two separate events and I'm sure Belizeans are still in support of our national team so this is going to represent us, we're going to represent Belize abroad and so we need their support. We're asking specifically now that Belizeans continue to support our national team and continue support the effort we're doing with our national team players. We've got to have the funds in order for our players to feel comfortable and for them to represent us well. There is a cab that we are trying to reach and it is $500,000bzd - we believe it is achievable and we can do it and we're asking every Belizean to contribute $1 - we have 350,000 people in Belize and will that we'll be able to reach our goal for gold cup and to take care of our national team players."

The Telethon is on June 15th.