A charity tournament to help a footballer viciously attacked while on holiday in Greece last year is looking for teams.

Robbie Hughes, 29, from Wallington, and his family are trying to raise money to cover the legal fees and medical equipment needed after he was beaten to a pulp by a group of men in the resort of Malia last year.

Goals Sutton, the sports centre organising the event, is now calling for teams to enter the tournament to be held on August 30, and help them achieve their target of £2,000.

The family needs to raise money to cover the costs which have run up to £35,000.

One of the organisers, Stuart Duncan, 26, said: “We have five or six teams already and we are waiting for another six or so centres to enter teams as well.

When it gets to the actual day several other teams tend to turn up.

“We’ll have other things on the day too, like a bouncy castle and a speed cage and hopefully a barbecue as well.

“I followed Robbie’s story in the paper and seeing what happened to him, and him being a footballer, we wanted to help bring the people who did that to him to justice.”

Mr Hughes endured four life-saving operations after being attacked last year.

Despite a 10-year gap in his memory and battling obsessive compulsive disorder, which once made him wash his hands hundreds of times a day, the former Sutton United and Croydon Athletic winger has just signed a one-year deal with Welling United.

He was given permission to return to competitive football on the condition he wears a protective headguard and accepts responsibility for any potentially fatal knocks to his skull.

Last year, Mr Hughes had been told by specialists he would never play football again.

For more information or to enter a team, call Stuart Duncan on 020 8644 1333.

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