Project “For integrated footballreturns to stay at the Orogel stadium. As spring approaches, the stadium will host most of the joint training that has brought together disabled children (aged eight to eighteen) and athletes from Juventus’ youth sector for five seasons. And at the first training session in Manuzzi, held last Friday, there were also three players from the first team: Luca Lewis, Luigi Silvestri and Mattia Mustacchio, accompanied by the co-president of Cesena FC Robert Lewis: a presence that brought particularly lucky two new bianconeri, who the next day scored in the match against Siena. As in previous editions, the project uses not only Cesena FC youth sector coaches, but also social-relational dynamics experts and qualified FIGC instructors provided by AIAC (Italian Association of Football Coaches) Onlus. They are coordinated by Massimo Buratti from Cesena, who is the national adviser of the association: “When President Lewis learned about our project,” he said, “he immediately took it to heart and wanted to increase the frequency of training: so we moved from one to two weekly sessions, but in the future we want to grow even more. At the same time, we have also increased the number of employees in order to have a ratio of one instructor for every two to three children with disabilities and thus provide a qualitatively better job. We are currently nine people, including a trainee who will make our inclusive project the subject of his thesis at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Ferrara.” “One day at the Martorano Sports Center,” co-president Lewis said, “I saw a group of disabled children training with athletes from our teams: this is how I got acquainted with the project and its uniqueness. It is always a pleasure to discover the dynamics that these trainings create: the exchange of experience is a great opportunity at the relationship level for both children with disabilities and those working in our youth sector.” With the support of the Municipality of Cesena, In 2020 the Integrative Football program was awarded the Grassroots Awards, an award established by UEFA for grassroots football clubs, with a special prize in the category “Best Football and Disability Initiative”. ”, “for advancing a specific project on the topic of involving young people with intellectual disabilities through football, which made it possible to combine sport and social inclusion.”
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