Responsible Mexico Supporters Rewarded in Houston -

09/08/2018

Soccer United Marketing (SUM), Estrella Jalisco and TEAM Coalition encouraged supporters to be responsible while attending the 2018 Mexican National Team Tour and Fútbol Fiesta on Friday, September 7, 2018 at NRG Stadium.

Before the match, 86 supporters pledged to be responsible in the Fútbol Fiesta. Supporters signed a pledge wall showing their commitment to drink responsibly and never drive drunk. They posed in front of the wall and received a free souvenir photo. Fans shared their digital photos and the responsibility message by posting photos on Facebook and Twitter. The 36 photos taken were viewed a total of 116 times, an average of 3.2 views per photo.

The NRG Stadium match was the fifth and final friendly in the 2018 Tour as the Mexican National Team prepares for the World Cup.

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF THE FAN PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK!

Major League Soccer is happy to support and continue to work alongside TEAM Coalition in support of the key objectives of improving the game day experience for all our guests, together with the extremely successful Responsibility Has Its Rewards and the Designated Driver programs. The work that TEAM continues to be involved in can only make our events safer and more secure for all attending and supporting soccer. We are privileged to be a partner with TEAM.Ray Whitworth, Vice President of Operations & Security with Major League Soccer and Chairman of TEAM Coalition

All of our colleagues take great pride in promoting responsible drinking, as we have done for more than 35 years. The Responsible Fan program with Estrella Jalisco is a great way to remind fans to both enjoy responsibly and have a safe ride plan. Our partnership with the Mexico National TEAM, TEAM Coalition and the great supporters of MNT displays our collective responsibility to help keep our roads safe. Adam Warrington, Vice President of CSR-Better World, Anheuser-Busch

The success of the Responsibility Has Its Rewards campaign with Major League Soccer and Bud Light for the Mexico National Team games is a direct result of the commitment from the League, the MLS clubs, sponsors, concessionaires and all the campaign partners. Teamwork is what this campaign is all about. We are demonstrating that when everyone – including the fans – takes responsibility, everyone wins.Jill Pepper, Executive Director, TEAM Coalition

Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch and its employees build on a legacy of corporate social responsibility by focusing on three key areas: promoting alcohol responsibility, preserving and protecting the environment and supporting local communities. In the past three decades, Anheuser-Busch and its wholesalers have invested more than $1 billion in preventing drunk driving and underage drinking and promoting responsible retailing and advertising. Anheuser-Busch reduced total water use at its breweries by nearly 50 percent over the last 10 years. The company has been a leading aluminum recycler for more than 30 years. Each year Anheuser-Busch and its Foundation invest approximately $20 million in donations to charitable organizations that help in local communities. The company also has provided over 76 million cans of emergency drinking water to people impacted by natural and other disasters since 1988. Based in St. Louis, Anheuser-Busch, the leading American brewer, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the leading global brewer. For more information, visit www.anheuser-busch.com.

TEAM Coalition

TEAM Coalition is an alliance of professional and collegiate sports, entertainment facilities, concessionaires, stadium service providers, the beer industry, distillers, broadcasters, traffic safety experts and others working together to promote responsible drinking and positive fan behavior at sports and entertainment facilities. TEAM Coalition members and supporters include Major League Soccer, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Delaware North Sportservice, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Americrown, Aramark, Legends, Spectra, Beer Institute, National Beer Wholesalers Association, Constellation Brands, HEINEKEN USA, MillerCoors, Brown-Forman, Live Nation, National Association of Broadcasters, Contemporary Services Corporation, International Association of Venue Managers, Stadium Managers Association and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. For more information visit www.TEAMCoalition.org or www.FansDontLetFansDriveDrunk.org.

US DOT / NHTSA 2017 NATIONAL DATA:

• In 2017, 10,874 people were killed as a result of alcohol-related (BAC > 0.08) car crashes, a decrease of 1.1% from the 10,996 fatalities in 2016.

• Many, if not most of those lives would have been saved if people did not drive when they were impaired by alcohol or if they used sober, designated drivers or if they simply wore their seat belts.

• Statistics and research clearly show that 21-34 year old males are the demographic most likely to be involved in an automobile crash, drive when impaired by alcohol, and fail to buckle up.

Author: jillteamcoalition