Balls. Communities around football

Our idea is to create a KA1 mobility for youth workers project during the second week of march to talk about everything that is playing around football more than the game itselfs; to focus on football as a communitarian gathering.

Football, from World Cup to street football, is one of the most famous sports all over the world, as a social and cultural movement. Millions of people are gathering on their screen following the matches as an important thing in their lives, or investing their time in playing it with their friends, talking about it and discussing with their families, more than the sports, in an economic, social and political level, etc. So it is crucial to think about this and focus on how to use this massive movement to reflect about social issues. Also is very interesting to take the chance to use it as an axis for social improvement and communitarian development.

Goals
Reflect on the power of football beyond sport
Explore soccer as a mass movement
Encourage the critical analysis of the intersections of football with themes such as the lgtbi, racism, feminism or political activism.
Upgrade the approach to football as an effective tool for social change

Contents
The importance of football as a mass movement
How to create community through football
Successful experiences and good practice of social mobilization through football
Transversal themes crossed by football: lgtbiphobia, politics, racism, feminism ...
Tools to use football as a central axis of social change