Sporting Chance Clinic
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This article is about the British mental health charity for current and former professional sportspeople. For the science fiction novel, see Sporting Chance.
Sporting Chance (sometimes referred to by its original name, Sporting Chance Clinic) is a registered UK based charity.
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Founded | 1 September 2000 (2000-09-01) |
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Founder | Tony Adams |
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Set up by former Arsenal and England football captain Tony Adams, Sporting Chance provides support to current and former professional athletes for a wide variety of mental and emotional health problems.
Formed in September 2000, the charity provides current and retired athletes with education and training tools as well as one to one counselling (for any emotional or mental health issue) in the residential clinic set up specifically to treat addictive disorders.
On 27 September 2013, it was announced that former CEO Peter Kay had died aged 52.[1][2][3]