SOCCERNITES
Soccernites is a youth football and education development programme which takes place in Dublin.
Soccernites incorporates free weekly soccer training and a Young Leaders programme for 15-20 year old male youth from diverse ethnic backgrounds, including refugees, asylum-seekers and unaccompanied minors, developing respect for themselves and others, building self-confidence and relationships and encouraging participants to realise their full potential within their community.
Soccernites training takes place every Friday between 6-8pm at Clontarf All Weather Pitches.
Please message Kerrie on +353 86 2652175 if you would like to attend.
Soccernites is designed to occupy children and youth by developing their football skills and improving fitness, whilst also promoting cultural awareness and social inclusion using football3 and the UEFA Fair Play system.
Participants from Soccernites represent SARI in tournaments and festivals across the island of Ireland.
The also have the opportunity to travel further afield for solidarity tournaments such as the European Streetfootball Festival and the FIFA Football For Hope Festival at the FIFA World Cup.
Head Coach and Young Leader Azeez Yusuff was voted Volunteer of the Year in the Sports and Recreation section of the Volunteer Ireland annual awards in December 2019.
Soccerniters delivered workshops and Summer Soccer Camps at Mosney Direct Provision Centre and Balseskin Refugee Reception Centre. They also hosted and participated in friendly matches with youth at Don Bosco Care in Dublin.
Soccernites helps create friendships and respect through football. Strength and conditioning exercises are carried out by specialists and students from the Limerick Institute of Technology. Soccernites promotes the small sided game to provide maximum contact time with the ball.
Soccernites is supported by the FIFA Foundation.
