{"id":280188,"date":"2024-05-14T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/?p=280188"},"modified":"2024-05-13T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:06:09","slug":"man-uniteds-raphael-varane-wins-prestigious-award-in-recognition-of-his-philanthropic-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/2024\/05\/14\/man-uniteds-raphael-varane-wins-prestigious-award-in-recognition-of-his-philanthropic-efforts-280188\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United&#8217;s Raphael Varane wins prestigious award in recognition of his philanthropic efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--Article Start--><br \/>\nManchester United defender Raphael Varane has claimed the UNFP Citizen Player Award as a reward for his charitable contributions and philanthropic efforts back home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madeinfoot.ouest-france.fr\/infos\/article-trophees-unfp-raphael-varane-est-elu-joueur-citoyen-de-la-saison-445025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madein Foot<\/a> reports that Varane was handed the prize at Pavillon Gabriel in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>Varane won it due to his selfless acts of offering free football courses to young children in the North and in Martinique.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">RAPHA\u00cbL VARANE OBTIENT LE PRIX DE JOUEUR CITOYEN<br \/>Le joueur est fondateur de stages de football gratuit pour les jeunes \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TropheesUNFP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TropheesUNFP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J0A6SbnaLT\">pic.twitter.com\/J0A6SbnaLT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scoop Ligue 1 (@ScoopLigue1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScoopLigue1\/status\/1790111887008403802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the accolade was won by Zimbabwe international Marshall Munetsi, who earned praise and admiration for making a huge difference in his home country.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed that Munetsi donates around 20% of his monthly football earnings to his foundation, which targets underprivileged children by paying school fees for them, and supplying stationery, food hampers and football kits.<\/p>\n<p>Varane is currently injured and not available to Erik ten Hag for selection in United&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old is out with a muscle injury that he picked up in the 4-3 loss at the hands of Chelsea at Stamford Bridge last month.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has caused him to miss United&#8217;s last five Premier League games and the four-time Champions League winner is facing a race against time to feature again this term.<\/p>\n<p>There is an expectation that Varane will depart Old Trafford once the campaign concludes, with Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS eager to get his massive wages off the club&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/seven-players-could-leave-manchester-united-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journalist Dharmesh Sheth gave an update<\/a> on the Frenchman&#8217;s future and said, &#8220;There are going to be players that are going to leave because they&#8217;re at the end of their contract. We&#8217;ve mentioned these before, we&#8217;ve mentioned Raphael Varane, we&#8217;ve mentioned Anthony Martial, they are very likely to leave the football club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then you&#8217;ve got players who are going to have one year left on their contract, then you&#8217;re going to have players who are slightly older that are on longer-term contracts, who, United will think, this is not the way we want to start this new era.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheth further stated, &#8220;So you could see a situation where there could be five, six, seven players leaving the club and five, six, seven players coming into Manchester United.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>United return to action on Wednesday when they host Eddie Howe&#8217;s Newcastle at home.<br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<em>Want to be the first to hear breaking Man United news? 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