LOUIS SAHA JOINS SIGA CHAMPIONS TEAM

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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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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