Football legend Louis Saha, former French national team and Manchester United striker is SIGA’s
latest Champion.
Along with his impressive playing credentials on the pitch, Louis Saha is using his athlete
experience to positively transform the sports industry and ensure that athletes are advised off pitch
in a more transparent and credible manner. To achieve this, Louis recently founded AxisStars, a
private community for professional athletes & entertainers. AxisStars empowers its members to
inform and equip themselves throughout their first career and beyond, by accessing verified
information, connecting with each other and collaborating with vetted businesses.
Together with Louis joining the SIGA Champions team, AxisStars is the latest organisation to
express public support to SIGA’s reform agenda. As part of the partnership, SIGA’s COO Katie
Simmonds will sit on the AxisStars Admissions and Ethics Committee and AxisStars’ COO Kate
Hamer will be a Mentor in the SIGA Global Mentorship Programme on female leadership in sport.
Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros, Global CEO of SIGA and Chairman & CEO of SIGA AMERICA,
stated:
"We are delighted to welcome Louis Saha in our SIGA Champions Team, and AxisStars as
our newest Committed Supporter. Athletes such as Louis, have a pivotal role to play in
changing mentalities and instigating long-overdue reforms. We look forward to working with
him to do exactly this."
Louis Saha, Football Legend, former French national Team and Manchester United Footballer,
FIFA 2006 World Cup Runner Up, Founder, AxisStars & newly appointed SIGA Champion,
commented:
"SIGA is much needed in the world of sport, I’m really impressed by their mission. Collaborating
with AxisStars means we can address and improve integrity in sport from both sides – the
organisations and the athletes themselves. It was an obvious Partnership to me and I am
excited to get started as a SIGA Champion."
This announcement takes place on the eve of the digital SIGA Champions’ Special Session that
Louis is participating in. Joining Louis Saha SIGA has mobilised an impressive squad of SIGA
Champions and high-profile athletes from a wide range of sports, including, but not limited to:
• Ben Gollings
World Record Holder Rugby 7s, Former English Rugby Captain, International Master Trainer –
Coaching & Education, Optimisation Hub
• Emilio Butragueño
Football Legend | former Real Madrid and Spanish National Team | Vice President, Real Madrid
| 6-time Spanish League Champion, 2 -time UEFA Cup Winner, 2 -time Spanish Cup Winner
• Rosa Mota
SIGA Champion | Gold (Seoul, 1988) and Bronze (Los Angeles, 1984) Olympic Medallist | World Gold
Medallist (Rome, 1987) and 3-time European Gold Medallist (Athens 1982, Stuttgart 1986 & Split 1990) |
2-time Female Runner of the Year
Karin Korb
Wheelchair Tennis, 2- Time Paralympian Champion & SIGA Champion
• Miguel Oliveira
MotoGP Motorcycle Racer & SIGA Champion
• Stacey Copeland
First British Woman to win the Commonwealth Title for Boxing & SIGA Champion
• Tessa Sanderson CBE
6 tim es Olympian, Olympic Gold Medallist, 3 Times Commonwealth Gold Medallist, World Cup
Gold Medallist
• Cameron Myler
Four‐time Olympian in the sport of luge, Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University’s
Tisch Institute for Global Sport, Arbitrator, Court of Arbitration for Sport & SIGA Champion
• Florence Williams
Wasps Ladies Rugby - Competing in the Allianz Premier 15s - playing fly-half, Founder of The
Perception Agency
• Ode Fulutudilu
FIFA wom en’s World Cup 2019 player, South African women’s national, pro soccer player -
Aland United
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Places are limited. Register here to secure your complimentary place and download the
latest agenda.
The SIGA Champions Programme is an athlete ambassadorial programme that embraces and
values the voices of athletes around social causes underpinned by the values SIGA advocates: fair
play, honesty, teamwork and integrity.
If you are an athlete and are actively promoting social causes underpinned by sport integrity and
are interested in joining the SIGA Champion programme, please contact the SIGA COO, Katie
Simmonds, at katie.simmonds@siga-sport.com.
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