This afternoon, the 2020 Shanghai "Magnolia Memorial Award" award ceremony was officially held. Shanghai Greenland Shenhua player Giovanni Moreno successfully won this award, congratulations to Moreno! This year, a total of 50 outstanding expatriates from 19 countries received this special honor, and the winners came from many fields such as economy and trade, finance, science and technology, education, culture, health, friendly exchanges and so on.
Moreno joined Shanghai Shenhua in June 2012 and has scored 79 goals in 241 appearances for Shenhua so far, becoming the team's top scorer in history, helping the club win the Chinese Football Association Cup twice in 2017 and 2019, and is also the longest foreign player to play for the same team in the history of the Chinese Super League.
Outside the stadium, Moreno is actively involved in various public welfare activities. He has served as a civilized traffic volunteer to promote safe travel, and participated in the filming of public welfare publicity videos such as preventing telecommunications fraud. In 2019, Moreno established the Moreno Public Welfare Fund, which bears his name. In July 2020, Shanghai Greenland Shenhua Football Club officially established the Shanghai Charity Foundation Moreno Greenland Shenhua Public Welfare Fund at the Greenland Bund Center Merchant Marine Hall, which is also the first club special public welfare fund named after a player in domestic football. The fund aims to help football teenagers with family difficulties to continue their football dreams, and as of the end of last year, it has funded a number of Shanghai football youth families.
During the outbreak of new crown pneumonia in 2020, Moreno purchased urgently needed epidemic prevention materials in the epidemic area through the public welfare fund and donated them to Wuhan and Macheng in Hubei Province, which was highly appreciated by the Ninth Hospital of Wuhan and the Macheng Epidemic Prevention Headquarters. Under the overall controllability of the domestic epidemic situation, the initiative to help Italy and donate N95 masks, isolation suits, protective clothing, goggles and other materials to Italy through Greenland Group.