Many people, particularly those from the United States, have a preconceived notion that views extracurricular activities and educational development as two mutually exclusive entities. CAN Fútbol Foundation has a strategy that juxtaposes athletic development with academic development.
Why Use Soccer?
CAN Fútbol Foundation believes in building a peaceful and better world, and is concerned with the preservation of human dignity through sport and education. Soccer, as a sport, has no preconceived prejudice regarding economic status and therefore can serve as a vehicle for social interaction and it can help to establish the right to education for all.
Soccer is an intrinsic part of local cultures and communities across the world. The dynamic and impact of this sport is so positive that it brings smiles to childrens’ faces even in the worst of circumstances. In most places, simply showing up to the field with a soccer ball will win you instant friendships and immediate access into a local community. Soccer teams and leagues are pervasive even in the most impoverished communities.
CAN Fútbol Foundation recognizes that the true power of soccer has always been in the connections that it creates between people both on and off the field. Therefore, by using the popularity of soccer to engage underprivileged young people, CANFF has combined Sport and Development concepts, academics, and accountability methodologies in order to make a positive impact in the lives of the youth with which we work.
Strategies
- To provide our student-athletes with an opportunity for athletic and academic growth by giving them with the necessary tools with which to do so.
- To engage youth in the world’s poorest countries through the power of soccer, empowering them with the life skills to adopt healthy behaviors. Additionally, we see this as an opportunity to help student-athletes realize their dreams of playing soccer at a collegiate and/or professional level.
- To show young people the benefits of choosing soccer and education as potential career paths.
- To reduce violence and drug addiction, and use soccer as a forum to uplift communities materially, spiritually, and psychologically.
Collection Campaign: Sports in general have the capability to change a person’s life. And we believe that playing sports is an integral part of a person’s physical, social, and mental development.
In most developing countries across the world, soccer is a national obsession; however, many of the players have only limited equipment, using ragged or plastic soccer balls and wear shoes too big and too damaged to run in.
CANFF’s Collection Campaign is an initiative that provides our student-athletes with new or slightly used soccer equipment with which to properly train.
Player Development
This initiative provides a positive avenue for these student-athletes to reach their full athletic and academic potential.
CANFF structures its education and soccer programs in such a way that it promotes both facets equally for those who decide to pursue post secondary education and athletics, preparing the student-athlete for both endeavors.
Core Objectives
- To promote soccer and education in impoverished communities, showing them the benefits of soccer as a vehicle for upward mobility.
- To promote soccer as a means of entertainment, peaceful coexistence, and physical well-being for underprivileged adults and children.
- To reduce violence and drug addiction within communities through the participation in soccer.
- To create positive lifestyles through extracurricular activity.
- To use soccer as a forum where the material, spiritual, and psychological problems associated with poor living conditions can be addressed in an uplifted manner.
- To promote soccer as a life skill.
- To demonstrate the values of soccer as an educational tool.
- To use soccer as a powerful instrument to instill universal values such as self-respect, discipline, and leadership.
Donate Now: It takes as little as $50.00 to buy the necessary sports equipment – ball, cleats, shinguards, shorts, socks, and shirt – to fully outfit one of our student-athletes.
