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Summary

• About us ………………………………………………………….. page 3 • The Golf Stars ………………………………..………………..…. page 9

• Why..………………………………………………………………… page 4 • Special Guests ……………………………………………………. page 10

• Achievements …………………………………………………….. page 5 • Storyboard …………………………………………………………… page 11

• The Tournament ………………………………………………… page 6 • Media Coverage ……………...... …………………………… page 14

• The Program ………………………………………………………. page 7 • Governance and Contacts ………………………………….. page 16

2 About Us

Reflecting upon our many and exciting personal experiences we both fell The Vialli and Mauro Foundation for the Research and Sport is a non the same need: to dedicate part of our time, energy and resources to help profit organization founded in in 2004 by , Massimo those who were lacking the most valuable gift you can possess: health. Mauro and Cristina Grande Stevens. We knew that in some countries athletes are very engaged in charity and volunteer work, often within an organized structure. At the base of the activities of the Foundation is love for life, a real passion for sport as a cultural and ethic phenomenon and the desire to operate We decided we wanted to do the same, ideally exploiting our twin concretely and to always be transparent. The Vialli and Mauro Foundation passions: football and golf. Thus was born a dream, which became reality mission is to finance the Amiotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Cancer when we founded the Fondazione Vialli e Mauro per la ricerca e lo sport, a Research. In november 2008 the Vialli and Mauro Foundation joined forces non‐profit foundation. with Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione Telethon and AISLA (Italian Association on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) to found AriSLA –The Agency for Research on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) . We were fortunate to benefit from the help and advice of many who were crucial in the early stages of our project. To them goes our most sincere thanks. ARISLA intends to catalyse the researches aimed at the development of new therapies for ALS in Italy by financing selected projects and giving services to the researchers. The mission of the agency is to offer ALS patients Gianluca Vialli e increased hopes of cure and an improved quality of life.

3 Why

ALS Amiotrophyc Lateral Sclerosis OBJECTIVES 2010

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused Objective n. 7 (2008) by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous Financing of a budget for one position as neurology university at the ALS Centre of system that control voluntary muscle movement. Turin on the I Neurological Clinic of the University of Turin. The condition is often called Lou Gehrig's disease in North America, after the New Total cost: € 450.000,00 / Raised Funds: € 87.846,26 York Yankees baseball icon, who was diagnosed with the disease in 1939 and died from it in 1941, at age thirty‐seven. Objective n. 8 (2008) Today, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, British historian Tony Judt, guitar AriSLA (Research Agency for ALS), is looking for a person to be appointed as director virtuoso Jason Becker and former Italian footballer Stefano Borgonovo are among the best‐known living ALS patients. Total cost: € 500.000,00 / Raised Funds: € 250.000,00 The disorder causes muscle weakness and atrophy throughout the body as both the upper and lower motor neurons degenerate, ceasing to send messages to Objective n. 9 (2010) muscles. The patient may ultimately lose the ability to initiate and control all Financing a scholarship for a Telethon project voluntary movement; bladder and bowel sphincters and the muscles responsible Total cost: € 30.000,00 for eye movement are usually (but not always) spared.

4 Achievements

Objective n. 4 (2007) Thanks to the support and generosity of many friends and institutions, Vialli e Mauro Foundation has raised more then one milion euros and achieved several Finance research to identify the genetic and environmental risk factors of ALS objectives. development in football players and to identify possible molecular targets for new therapy and includes 3 scholarships (Milan, Pavia, Turin) , the necessary reactants for conducting the experiment and the acquisition of an instrument (Bio‐Plex Objective n. 1 (2005) System, Bio‐Rad). Acquire a digital mammogram for the IRCC –Hospital of Candiolo Total cost: / Raised Funds: € 247.000,00 Total cost: / Raised Funds: € 286.383,00 Objective n. 5 (2007) Objective n. 2 (2005‐2006) Acquire 5 Aible My Tobii for Aisla Finance a scholarship for project "Clinical Application of autologous mesenchymal Total cost: / Raised Funds: € 88.886,20 stem cells in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" at the Neurological Clinic University of Novara. Total cost: / Raised Funds: € 68.000,00 Objective n. 6 (2008) Purchase an electromyograph to be donated to the Nemo Clinic Centre of Milan Objective n. 3 (2006) Niguarda Hospital Centre Acquisition request for an instrument for the Laboratory of the Stem Cell Total cost: / Raised Funds: € 62.000,00 Transplant and Cellular Therapy Centre of the Turin Regina Margherita Paediatric Hospital. Total cost: / Raised Funds: € 25.600,00

5 The Tournament

PRO AM VIALLI AND MAURO GOLF CUP

The 7th edition of the Vialli e Mauro golf cup will be played on May the 10th at the Golf Club Castelconturbia(No). The golf course is one of the oldest in Italy and is rated as one of the top ten courses in Europe and has been home of many Italian Opens. Played on the Monday after the final day of the Italian open, the Vialli and Mauro Golf Cup is the most glamorous, exclusive, competitive Pro‐Am in the country. Stars from the European tour, football legends and special guests will challenge the narrow fairways and the fast undulated greens in afour balls format (two best scores to count) Previous partecipants include: , Pavel Nedved, , , Shevchenko, , , Gonzalo Fernandez‐ Castano, Angel Cabrera, Paul Lawrie, Raphael Jacquelin, Andres Romero, Eduardo “El Gato” Romero, Ricardo Gonzales , Francesco and Edoardo Molinari.

6 The Program

09.30 Welcome Breakfast and Players check in 10.30 Press conference 11.30 Teams presentation and score giving 12.30 Shot gun start 19.00 Price giving ceremony (hosted by Andrea e Michele from Radio Deejay) 19.30 Delicious cocktail‐dinner party and top secret show (unmissable) Disco dance

(Previous performers: Kataklo Athletic Dance, Studio Festi, Dado Fireworks)

7 Some our friends...... featuring as the Protagonists in our mission

8 The Golf Stars

BAKER Peter LAWRIE Paul BARRIO Fabian LEVET Thomas BEGAY III Notah LYNN David BUTTERFIELD Andrew MARTIN Miguel Angel CABRERA Angel MARTIN Pablo CABRERA BELLO Rafael MOLINARI Edoardo CALI' Giuseppe MOLINARI Francesco CANETE Ariel MONASTERIO Cesar CANIZARES Alejandro ORMSBY Wade CANONICA Dino PARK David CANONICA Emanuele ROCA Fernando CARTER David ROCCA Costantino ECHENIQUE Rafael ROCHA Alexandre FERNANDEZ CASTANO Gonzalo RODILES Carlo FOSTER Mark RODRIGUEZ Miguel FRASER Marcus ROMERO Andres GALLACHER Stephan ROMERO Eduardo GONZALEZ Ricardo SANDELIN Jarmo GOYA Estanislao SIMON Hurd GRAPPASONNI Silvio STORME Graeme GUSTAFFSON Peter VANCSIK Daniel HAVRET Gregory WARREN Mark LARA Josè Manuel ZAPATA Jiulio

9 The Special Guest

BERTI Nicola MERLIN Barbara BIGON Alberto NADAL Miguel Angel BONIPERTI Gianpaolo NAVA Stefano CAGNI Gigi NEDVED Pavel CAMORANESI Mauro German PLATT David CARICOLA Nicola RAMPULLA Michelangelo CRUIJFF Johan RIEDLE Karl Heinz DE CHIESA Paolo SALINAS Julio DEL PIERO Alessandro SCHEVCHENKO Andrij DONADONI Roberto SCLOSA Claudio DOSSENA Giuseppe SIMONE Marco FIORIO Alex SWOCH Stefan FURINO Giuseppe TACCHINARDI Alessio GANDINI Umberto TARDELLI Marco GARRONE Edoardo TASSOTTI Mauro GEROLIN Manuel VIALLI Gianluca GUARDIOLA Josep ZEBINA Johnatan MAURO Massimo ZINETTI Giuseppe ZOLA Gianfranco

10 Storyboard

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13 Media Coverage Thanks to the presence of high‐profile guest and first‐rate PR work, partner companies will enjoy substantial media visibility.

14 Media Coverage Thanks to the presence of high‐profile guest and first‐rate PR work, partner companies will enjoy substantial media visibility.

15 Governance & Contacts

THE FOUNDERS FONDAZIONE VIALLI E MAURO Gianluca Vialli, Massimo Mauro, Cristina Grande Stevens PER LA RICERCA E LO SPORT ‐ ONLUS Via Piave, 10 ‐ 10122 Torino ‐ ITALY PRESIDENT: Gianluca Vialli Ph. +39. 011.00.81.293/4 ‐ Fax +39.011.00.81.295 VICE PRESIDENT: Massimo Mauro [email protected] SECRETARY GENERAL: Enrico Vallarolo [email protected] AUDITOR: Nicoletta Paracchini

STAFF: UFFICIO STAMPA AB COMUNICATION Grazia Micarelli Barbara Cologni and Alessandro Bellinazzi Carla Marisa Santos Via Uruguay 30/2 20151 Milano ‐ ITALY Silvia Anceschi Ph./fax +39.02.38010901 [email protected]

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