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This twinning is born of the situation of the women’s football teams in Santos FC. Due to the lack of material, logistical and human resources, the Burkinabe club decided to remove all the women’s teams of the club. When the situation reached the ears of those responsible for Jaleo! Esdeveniments Esportius i Humans (sporting and human events), through the association of Burkinabe of Barcelona, we work to find a football club that will help us to recover the women’s teams of Santos FC. This football club was FC Martinenc. After intense meetings between the two clubs and the managers of Jaleo, we organized a football tournament in the facilities of FC Martinenc, March 2019, to collect sports equipment and financial funds to sent it to Santos FC. The goal was to reborn the first female team at Santos FC and to provide it with sports equipment. The social impact of the event and the project was very significant. The tournament involved 24 football teams (16 men’s and 8 women’s). This led to more than 1000 people attending the event and enjoying live Burkinabe music, raffles of products from different companies that wanted to participate (Beko, Condis, La Fageda and Ferrero). In addition, the official television of Barcelona (BTV) attended the event to present the project and make a report. This report reached more than 150 views. We were pleased, also, to receive the visit from one of the heads of the Guinardó district headquarters. The media impact through social media was also significant. Between Instagram and Facebook we have more than 350 followers that pay attention to our publications. Once the sports event was over, we managed to collect more than 500kg of sports equipment and were able to raise enough money to send it to Santos FC. In November 2019 we sent all the material to Burkina Faso. In January 2020, the managers of Jaleo, and on behalf of FC Martinenc, went to Burkinabe country to do the official delivery ceremony of the sports equipment at Santos FC and meet the women players of the club. In addition, we wanted to see first-hand the immediate needs of the club and to know how we could continue to help them. We explain the project to the General Director of the Burkinabe Football Federation, to the Monarch of Burkina Faso, to another football teams of the football first division of Burkina Faso (Salitas FC) and in two Burkinabe National Televisions; Info Burkina and Canal 3. The project is still underway. After the rebirth of the women’s amateur team, we want to structure the lower female football categories (creating two teams of girls: 8-12 years old and 13-17 years old). Also, we want to achieve that women’s amateur team competes in the women’s football national competition of Burkina Faso. In addition, the project has opened its goals to help all the lower categories of the club with sports equipment; to help the coaches of the club, sharing the methodology of FC Martinenc with Santos FC and teaching the coaches new football knowledge; and, if it’s possible, to help Santos FC to build new infrastructures to improve their facilities. At June 2020 we will do the second editions of the project “2Clubs, 2 Barris, 1 Somni”.
Год создания
2020