Road to The Amputee World Cup

Hi and thank you for taking the time to visit my fundraising page.

My name is Ben Houghton and I am a striker for the England Amputee Football Team. I have been an amputee since birth but haven't let anything get in my way as I have had the huge honour of representing my country in several different tournaments around the world.

This year we are aiming to push on from last year's successes where we won the inaugural Amp Polska Cup in Warsaw. Followed by just missing out on the trophy in the European Amputee Championships finishing runners up to turkey. We will be hoping to go one further by lifting the Amputee World Cup which will be held in Guadalajara Mexico later this year.

Also coming up for the amputee sqaud will be two friendlies against the USA and Haiti. Then we will travel to Poland to defend our success of last year before heading to Guadalajara for the biggest tournament of our lives.

All of this wouldn't be possible with out the help of everybody back home as the England Amputee Football Federation isn't backed by any of the footballing governing bodies so we rely solely on kind donations to make our dreams of representing our country a reality.

Because we are not funded by any sporting bodies each player needs to raise £1200 to go towards training facilities, equipment, accomadtion, flights to our destination.

So please if you can spare anything it would be highly appreciated.

Please feel free to share this page aswell. As awareness is also key to our succeses. Thank you again for taking the time to read this page