- Title: KENYA: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - Young footballers look forward to attending World Cup
- Date: 5th May 2010
- Summary: GIRL DRIBBLING A BALL (SOUNDBITE) (English) FATHIM HAMISI OMAR, PLAYER SAYING: "I don't think I could go there but playing football has made me to have that opportunity." TEAM TRAINING (SOUNDBITE) (English) PHILIP MWANGO, PLAYER SAYING: "It is an experience that it might be the first and last to travel to South Africa because even in my family I don't think they could
- Embargoed: 20th May 2010 13:00
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- Location: Kenya
- Country: Kenya
- Topics: Sports
- Reuters ID: LVA4T7DKCPMS3EB65L5XIY4ICSLH
- Story Text: KILIFI, KENYA (RECENT) (REUTERS)
FOOTBALL TRAINING CAMP
SIGN POST READING "SOKOKE SECONDARY SCHOOL"
MOVING THE GOALPOSTS KILIFI (MTGK) GIRL'S TEAM LISTENING TO INSTRUCTIONS
INSTRUCTOR TALKING TO TEAM
VARIOUS OF GIRLS TRAINING WITH INSTRUCTOR AND SOME OF THE GIRLS STRETCHING
COCKY VAN DAM, MOVING THE GOAL POSTS CO-ORDINATOR LOOKING ON
(SOUNDBITE) (English) COCKY VAN DAM, MOVING THE GOALPOSTS CO-ORDINATOR SAYING:
"We have been invited or selected for this event because of our achievement in using football for social change."
PLAYERS TRAINING IN THE FIELD JUGGLING AND DRIBBLING
(SOUNDBITE) (English) COCKY VAN DAM, MOVING THE GOALPOSTS CO-ORDINATOR SAYING:
"For this tournament, we are playing with a mixed team. So we have selected four boys and four girls from the communities where MTG is working and we are going to play football. It will be five versus five and it will be played without referees so before the match starts the teams have to negotiate about the rules."
GIRL DRIBBLING A BALL
(SOUNDBITE) (English) FATHIM HAMISI OMAR, PLAYER SAYING:
"I don't think I could go there but playing football has made me to have that opportunity."
TEAM TRAINING
(SOUNDBITE) (English) PHILIP MWANGO, PLAYER SAYING:
"It is an experience that it might be the first and last to travel to South Africa because even in my family I don't think they could manage to take me to South Africa or out of Kenya."
COACH INSTRUCTING TEAM
DISPLAY OF BALL JUGGLING SKILLS
(SOUNDBITE) (English) CLARIS KARISA, COACH SAYING:
"What is involved in our training is something to do with fair play, because we understand that in the festival we don't have referees. So for us to win we have to know what fair play is all about."
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