Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said he is giving 1 percent of his salary to charity Common Goal at the Best Fifa Football Awards in Milan on Monday.

The Guardian reported: “Klopp, speaking as he was collecting the Best Fifa men’s coach award in Milan, said: ‘The past was great, the present is really good and the future hopefully will be good for us as well. But there are people out there that are not exactly in the same situation. I am really proud and happy to announce that from today on I am a member of the Common Goal family’.” He added: “Liverpool’s

Champions League win was achieved on the back of exceptional team spirit among the staff and players, and it is only by working together that we can accomplish truly meaningful things in football and in life.”

Common Goal’s long-term vision is to unlock 1 percent of the football industry’s revenues — estimated at €50 billion ($55 billion) per year — for grassroots football NGOs that use the game to empower disadvantaged young people and their communities.

Klopp said: “As a team, even with a minimum pledge of just 1 percent, together the football industry is capable of transforming the world. Now is the time for those interested to take a step forward.” Avenue hosts a screening of his biography “Diego Maradona.” The documentary, produced by an Oscar-winning team, features his struggles and eventual rise to fame.

•The

9th Cairo Video Festival continues today, where a host of local and international video works will be screened across different venues in Cairo until Sept. 30.