{"id":2089509,"date":"2025-10-14T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2089509"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:16:10","slug":"soccer-aid-2025-when-is-it-which-celebrities-are-taking-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/soccer-aid-2025-when-is-it-which-celebrities-are-taking-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Aid 2025: When is it? Which celebrities are taking part?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Wayne Rooney, United’s all-time record goal-scorer, last managed at Soccer Aid in 2020 and played in the game the following year.<\/p>\n

He said: “It’s great to lace up the old boots again – and see some old friends – but the cause is the real reason we are doing this.”<\/p>\n

He’ll be playing alongside teammates like Sky soccer analyst Gary Neville and former Lionesses Jill Scott, Steph Houghton and Toni Duggan.<\/p>\n

There will also be famous names from outside of football, such as Olympic gold medallists Sir Mo Farah and Dame Denise Lewis, TV presenter and adventurer Bear Grylls, and singer Tom Grennan.<\/p>\n

Louis Tomlinson said:\u00a0“It’s about 10 years since I last turned out for Soccer Aid, so I thought it was about time I returned to the pitch.<\/p>\n

“As everyone knows, I am a massive football fan so playing\u00a0with some legends of the game is a dream come true.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wayne Rooney, United’s all-time record goal-scorer, last managed at Soccer Aid in 2020 and played in the game the following year. He said: “It’s great to lace up the old boots again – and see some old friends – but the cause is the real reason we are doing this.” He’ll be playing alongside teammates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2089510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Soccer-Aid-2025-When-is-it-Which-celebrities-are-taking.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089511,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089509\/revisions\/2089511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}