Get the Ball Rolling! Charity Urges Ronaldo to Save Homeless Dogs’ Lives in Morocco Ahead of 2030 World Cup

Get the Ball Rolling! Charity Urges Ronaldo to Save Homeless Dogs’ Lives in Morocco Ahead of 2030 World Cup

Rabat – Football icon and proud dog guardian Cristiano Ronaldo – who once donated an autographed jersey to help dogs at a struggling animal shelter in his native Portugal – is being asked to step up for canines once again. Following reports that homeless animals in Morocco are being slaughtered as the country prepares to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup, co-hosted by Portugal, PETA UK is asking Ronaldo to donate a small portion of his 2 billion Dirham annual earnings to help fund spay and neuter clinics that will reduce Morocco’s animal overpopulation crisis and prevent more dogs from being cruelly killed.

“Dogs are being gunned down, set on fire, and killed in other horrific ways simply for the sake of a football tournament,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “The slaughter is happening for football, so the football community must act to stop it. Ronaldo can assist dogs by funding spay and neuter clinics so fewer animals will be born on the streets.”

PETA points out that while Morocco’s King Mohammed VI gave a royal order to end the country’s decades-long massacre of homeless dogs and cats in 2019 – with authorities there signing an agreement to stop the killing – the pledge didn’t hold. Homeless animals are reportedly being snatched off the streets, shot, poisoned, burned alive, and left to die in cages without food or water, among other atrocities.

PETA UK’s letter to Ronaldo is available here. The group has also written to FIFA, calling on the football association to also urgently step in and stop the mass slaughter.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” – points out that Every Animal Is Someone.  For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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