The defenders visited Fulham Cross Girls School on Tuesday afternoon to highlight the club's Community Sports Trust's continued support of this season's racial awareness campaign and the educational work the club carry out in conjunction with the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council.

The visit formed part of the club's award-winning 'Different Cultures Same Game' campaign, which has been running for six consecutive years, in conjunction with this season's Premier League's Creating Chances Places for Players programme.

Fulham's nominated racial awareness fixture against Newcastle United, together with the players' visit helped reinforce the positive work carried out by the FFC Community Sports Trust in promoting social harmony, by giving local school children the opportunity to research and learn about different cultures.

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Pupils from Fulham Cross, Hurlingham & Chelsea, Henry Compton and Sir John Lillie schools were given an opportunity to showcase their work, as many of the pupils from the four schools participate in the Double Club or Playing for Success (PfS) programmes, delivered by Fulham's Community Sports Trust and Hammersmith & Fulham Council.

Pantsil and Kallio were on hand to assist pupils with their work before getting involved in a team quiz and football bingo competition.

Fulham defender, John Pantsil, said: "I think that this is a great scheme for our club to be involved in. Football is an effective way of getting young people to learn about different cultures, by highlighting how many different cultures are represented by players in different teams.

"Boys and girls grow up surrounded by a variety of cultures so it's important that they understand and embrace cultures of all kinds, and through schemes such as this they can come together and learn."

Fulham's nominated anti-racism fixture this season was against Newcastle United at Craven Cottage. Five-hundred tickets for the Newcastle and Sunderland fixtures were donated to children in the local community.