Mike Lahoud joins the Beyond Sport Family

Beyond Sport is delighted to announce Mike Lahoud as a Beyond Sport ambassador. Professional soccer player & advocate of social change, Lahoud will join a network of ambassadors that, among others include the likes of Michael Johnson, Lord Seb Coe, Michelle Ford, Wilfred Lemke, Dame Kelly Holmes, whose role it is to support the Beyond Sport movement, driving positive social change through the use of sport.

"I am excited to be joining the team as a Beyond Sport ambassador. After previously speaking at the Beyond Soccer and Beyond Sport United Series, I look forward to exploring new ways to drive sport towards social change” said Lahoud.

In 1992 Lahoud fled his home town, Freetown, Sierra Leone that was ridden with war when he was just six years old. He travelled to Virginia in the United States where his parents lived and that would be the last time he saw his home for another 20 years. Lahoud details his journey and the troubles he had growing up in America as a refugee in an article for The Players Tribute. During his MLS career he has created his own foundation, Building Dreams with Mike, for the purpose of promoting social change and aid him in raising money for the foundations he works with, Schools for Salone and the Bresee Foundation.

Since 2011 Lahoud has been committed to building a school in Sierra Leone for which he has personally raised $30,000 and in 2015 the MLS Players Union donated the remaining money needed and the Education for All Primary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone was built.