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Ambassador Libor Sečka and football clubs West Ham United and Slavia Prague teamed up to support the fight of seven years old British Isla Caton with cancer

Isla, seven, was diagnosed with the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma at the age of two. Ambassador Libor Sečka and football clubs West Ham United and Slavia Prague have teamed up to raise funds for her treatment.

Isla, seven, was diagnosed with the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma at the age of two, underwent lifesaving surgery at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital and has been receiving pioneering medical treatment in the Spanish city of Barcelona. The brave young West Ham fan from Hornchurch in Essex, suffered a relapse just before Christmas after returning to the UK and has now returned to Spain, where she is doing well.

Ambassador Sečka was made aware of Isla’s fight and reached out to Czech players in West Ham Tomáš Souček and Vladimír Coufa and their, as well as their former club Slavia Prague, to help Isla’s fight.

The Ambassador has secured signed shirts from Souček and Coufal and Slavia centre forward Abdallah Sima, whose goals have helped the Czech side reach the UEFA Europa League round of 16, where they face Scottish club Rangers.

The auction to raise funds for Isla’s fight was launched at 9am on Thursday 11 March and will last for one week. You can make a bid for one of the three signed shirts in here

Proceeds raised from the auction will be donated to the Isla’s fight fund.

Mr Sečka said: “Football is a game, but is also a powerfulltool in connecting people. And I am very happy that in the case of little Isla's fight we can all unite. I am grateful to Slavia Praha, West Ham United, to their players and their fans that thanks to their enormous solidarity and compassion we can jointly develop a very useful thing. I very much hope that this will help to our little great Isla!”

Souček and Coufal said: “As West Ham players, we know about this brave little girl Isla and her fight and we wanted to do what we can to help raise funds for her treatment.

“We spoke with Mr Sečka, who has become a big fan of the Hammers, and we have donated signed shirts which we hope will raise lots of money.”

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