As well as fighting for glory in the Champions League and Serie A, Inter Milan are also doing their bit for the peace effort in Lebanon.
The Italian champions have opened a soccer school for children aged 8-13 in the south of the country, which was ravaged by last year's conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
The school is the latest initiative launched by the club's Inter Campus Worldwide programme, which helps some 20,000 children in situations of hardship in 17 countries around the globe.
The projects vary from country to country, but they all use soccer schools and camps to help children get the education they need to break out of poverty.
"The aim is to make sure the kids have a complete education by enabling them to play soccer as children, and not as budding professional footballers," explained Inter Campus chief Massimo Moretti - who should not be confused with the club's chairman, Massimo Moratti.
Inter also links up with UN agencies, local authorities and NGOs engaged in development initiatives to give worthy causes some of the exposure that goes with the club's glamorous name.
The biggest project is in Brazil, where the club's support helps make sure over 4,000 children from the favelas slums go to school regularly.
In Bosnia Inter Campus Worldwide is doing its bit to repair ethnic divisions among young generations by running camps at which Serb, Croat and Muslim children train together.
Two years ago the club's efforts even earned them an invitation to play a friendly against a team representing the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) of Subcomandante Marcos.
Inter finances health and water-supply projects, and supports local junior soccer teams in the Chiapas region of Mexico, where Marcos fights for the rights of indigenous people.
Inter Campus Worldwide - which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year - presented its Lebanese project at the Tibnine military base, the headquarters of Italy's peacekeeping contingent in the Middle Eastern country.
The programme was greeted with massive enthusiasm by bus loads of Lebanese youngsters who had a kick-about in their complimentary Inter shirts on a former minefield swept by Italian soldiers.
A number of Inter players run development programmes too.
Inter captain Javier Zanetti, for example, has not forgotten his tough childhood in Buenos Aires and has set up a foundation (Fundacion PUPI) that gives poor Argentine children access to food and education and helps their families house and provide for themselves.
The website of Janetti's foundation (www.fundacionpupi.org) has an extensive English-language section.
