Everything
begins today
“When you go out to the field andthousands of
people are watching you, no matter what you did
yesterday or last year, everything
revolves around
the present …”
The Foundation
Everybody is welcome
“The present moment is the axis that moves everything in life. Inside as well as outside the soccer field. No matter what happened in the past. It is like when you’re sick or you’ve been. You can’t be constantly seeking to know the reason why, you can’t go back in time and correct or change things, you have only the present time. The only concern must be to look to the future with optimism and believe that every day is the first of the recovery and that everything you want to achieve begins today.”
This is the spirit I try to convey everyday and the one I want my children to learn. Children and young people have an enormous ability to look at life with a smile and optimism, but if they forget it because their reality is complicated, we all have to help them to wake up every morning with the strong conviction that they can improve their quality of life and have a great future.
Our Projects
The projects we work
on
The Foundation has projects to create emotional and physical bonds between people that can help better attendance and participation in the processes of medical treatment in children and young people in activities to improve the lives of people at risk of social exclusion, and taking as a basic tool sports, with a focus on football
Eric Abidal Foundation
"THE FOUNDATION REFLECTS THE VALUES IN WHICH I BELIEVE AND THE ONES I WANT TO TRANSMIT"
Eric Abidal Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Barcelona. It was founded in September 2013, on the initiative of Eric Abidal and his wife, Hayet Abidal. It was born to share a human project to improve the life of other people and to convey clear values: self-improvement, willpower, effort, generosity and teamwork.
The difficulties that Eric Abidal has had to overcome have served him as an experience, and now he wants to help people who may be in a similar situation in which he lived. “Everything begins today”, this is the slogan of Eric Abidal Foundation. Don’t give up, you have to improve yourself and keep on going. To achieve this, he had a medical team, but he also had the most important thing: his family and friends who helped him fight and overcome all adverse circumstances. This vitality is what Eric Abidal Foundation wants to convey, not only to people that work and collaborate with the Foundation but also to people that will benefit from several actions.
The Foundation has projects to create synergies between people that can help children and young people to improve their medical treatment processes. It also pays special attention to activities that improve the lives of people at risk of social exclusion. The basic tool for this is sports practice, with a special focus on football.
In order to find ways to collaborate with other people and companies, the Foundation makes an awareness work that includes actions to make public and promote the research in the fight against cancer.
One of the commitments of the Foundation will be the cooperation with other organizations and foundations in order to enable more people to improve their quality of life and have the conviction that “Everything begins today”.
The Foundation was founded the 20th of September 2013 and its headquarters is in Barcelona to establish reciprocity and cooperation relations with both Spanish and foreign entities.
Join Eric
YOU MAKE US BIG!
To carry out our projects we need your involvement. So if you want to help us, collaborate with us for other people to improve their living conditions. How can you do it? You have two options: you can make your monthly contribution (Become a Friend) or the donation you want (Become a Donor):
The difficulties that Eric Abidal has had to overcome have served him as an experience, and now he wants to help people who may be in a similar situation in which he lived. “Everything begins today”, this is the slogan of Eric Abidal Foundation. Don’t give up, you have to improve yourself and keep on going. To achieve this, he had a medical team, but he also had the most important thing: his family and friends who helped him fight and overcome all adverse circumstances. This vitality is what Eric Abidal Foundation wants to convey, not only to people that work and collaborate with the Foundation but also to people that will benefit from several actions.
The Foundation has projects to create synergies between people that can help children and young people to improve their medical treatment processes. It also pays special attention to activities that improve the lives of people at risk of social exclusion. The basic tool for this is sports practice, with a special focus on football.
In order to find ways to collaborate with other people and companies, the Foundation makes an awareness work that includes actions to make public and promote the research in the fight against cancer.
One of the commitments of the Foundation will be the cooperation with other organizations and foundations in order to enable more people to improve their quality of life and have the conviction that “Everything begins today”.
The Foundation was founded the 20th of September 2013 and its headquarters is in Barcelona to establish reciprocity and cooperation relations with both Spanish and foreign entities.
Thank you!
Latest news
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At the EAF, we are very proud to collaborate with Ricoh Spain, in the ‘Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplant Fellowship’ of Pediatrics Maternal-infant Vall d’Hebron university hospital. The Fellowship will fund for a year, focused on the formation of a physician at Hospital Vall d’Hebron,
Charity Match celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fundación Privada Samuel Eto’o
Éric Abidal will proudly represent the Eric Abidal Foundation on the 10-year Anniversary celebration of the Fundación Privada Samuel Eto’o, from the 15th to the 17th of July 2016 in Antalya, Turkey. The Fundación Privada Samuel Eto’o has been working relentlessly
La EAF colabora con MiCompañeroDeViaje y el Institut de Recerca del Hospital Vall D’Hebrón de Barcelona
The EAF collaborates with MiCompañeroDeViaje and The Research Institute of Vall D’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, in an ambitious research project about the ‘molecular characterization of pediatric sarcomas for more effective personalized therapy’. The main objective of this project is to
Éric Abidal, ambassador of the Catalan Transplant Organization (OCATT)
Éric Abidal has been appointed ambassador of the Catalan Transplant Organization (OCATT), in a ceremony attended by the French player himself, the vice president of FC Barcelona Jordi Cardoner, the Minister of Health Antoni Comin and the Director of the
LNR French Rugby League Final – Top14 at Camp Nou
The big day is coming! Next June 24, 2016 at 20.45, the first rugby match will be held at the Camp Nou, and the occasion is very special: the final of the world’s best Rugby League, the Top14. Éric Abidal
Éric Abidal participates in Fort Boyard to raise funds that will be allocated to pediatric oncology projects
Éric Abidal representing the EAFoundation, participates in the successful game show ‘Fort Boyard‘ on France2, facing together with his team a number of exciting games. The effort will not be in vain, as the prize money will fund research projects in