Teenagers & Families Can Score Financial Goals With World Cup Themed Video Game

Rhode Islanders Encouraged to Play Free Financial Video Game Created by Visa Inc, and U.S. National Soccer Team Captain Landon Donovan

North Smithfield, RI – June 12, 2010 – The Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, Soccer Rhode Island, and Wide World of Indoor Sports have teamed up to promote Visa's Financial Soccer, www.financialsoccer.com, an educational video game that combines the world's most popular sport with a high-quality financial literacy curriculum to create an innovative approach for helping children and adults learn about personal finance.

Rhode Island high school soccer players have been invited to participate in a friendly-competition event, play the video game and determine the “Financial Soccer Rhode Island Cup” champion as follows:

Saturday, June 12
10:30 - Noon

Wide World of Indoor Sports
621 Pound Hill Road, Bldg. 200
North Smithfield, RI 02896

U.S. National Soccer Team captain, Landon Donovan collaborated on the creation of the game and is helping with promotions. Two high school players at the event, to be chosen at random will receive pictures signed by Donovan.

Jim Hedemark, executive director of the RI Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy states, “With World Cup action just around the corner, we hope that kids and families throughout Rhode Island will play Financial Soccer and learn how to achieve financial GOALS, PASS up bad offers, avoid late-payment PENALTIES, understand credit SCORING, and make great SAVES.”

James “JR” Rodriques, general manager of Wide World of Indoor Sports, said, “We are proud to offer our facilities for this fun and educational event.In today’s challenging economy, we all need to find creative ways to teach our young people about the importance of solid money management skills.Financial Soccer is a great response to this need.”

Steve Votolato, president of Soccer Rhode Island adds, “Soccer promotes leadership, teamwork, fair-play, and physical fitness and now, through Financial Soccer, financial fitness.We at Soccer Rhode Island are proud to promote this innovative educational game that combines all that is great about soccer with the skills that are necessary to live a life of financial stability.”

About Financial Soccer
A FIFA Partner since 2007, Visa has been working to roll out Financial Soccer in over 25 countries in the months leading up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. This multilingual game is available at www.financialsoccer.com.

Financial Soccer challenges players to answer fast-paced, multiple-choice money management questions correctly to advance down the field for a chance to score a goal. Financial Soccer offers single player and head-to-head game play options and is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic with additional versions in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Bahasa launching next month. This free game features three difficulty levels – geared to children, teens and adults – and has companion lesson modules for classroom use. Players learn key concepts about saving, responsible spending, budgeting, and the wise use of credit.

About RI Jump$tart Coalition
The Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, founded in May of 2004, is a nonprofit coalition of partners from the academic, business, and civic sectors with the mission of increasing personal financial capability for youth.

For more information, visit www.rijumpstart.org
Contact: Jim Hedemark, Executive Director, (401) 385-9411

About Wide World of Indoor Sports
Wide World of Indoor Sports provides a state-of-the- art training facility for all ages and abilities. We are the only facility in Rhode Island to offer non-boarded fields. Our goal at Wide World of Indoor Sports is to provide athletes a place that they can grow to their full potential.Sports we offer include: Soccer, Lacrosse, Flag Football, Baseball, Softball, Girls Field Hockey, Volleyball, Wiffle®Ball and many more!

Wide World of Indoor Sports offers a 70, 000 sq. ft. sports facility, 4 non-boarded fields, fields with top of the line turf, a mezzanine overlooking all fields, 1 turfed & lighted outdoor field, and is climate-controlled.

For more information, visit www.wideworldofindoorsports.com
Contact: James “JR” Rodrigues, General Manager, (401) 767-1234

About Soccer Rhode Island
Soccer Rhode Island was established in 2000 and consists of approx. 23,000 players (Boys & Girls), 3,400 coaches & 800 referees spread throughout forty (40) Recreational, TOPSoccer, Competitive, ODP, and Premier clubs/associations in RI. It is the mission of Soccer Rhode Island to foster the physical, mental, and emotional growth and development of Soccer Rhode Island's youth through the sport of soccer at all levels of age, abilities, and competition via education & communication.

Soccer Rhode Island is a non-profit organization; it is an affiliate of US Youth Soccer and the United States Soccer Federation.

For more information, visit www.soccer-ri.com
Contact: Steve Votolato, President, (401) 255-5176