2024-06-21 09:26:50
Little identified a couple of years in the past, American soccer has grow to be widespread and gained increasingly more floor, giving rise to a number of 100% feminine groups, just like the Black Mambas, the Jaguars and the Lions who’ve proven that this Contact sport can also be a girls’s affair.
An indication of enthusiasm for this Made in US sport, the Moroccan American soccer workforce was created below the aegis of the Moroccan American Soccer Affiliation (AMFA) which brings collectively 6 golf equipment below its banner and was even topped , regardless of its younger existence since 2012, African champion in 2014.
Additionally it is the primary African and Arab workforce to qualify for the American soccer World Cup in Sweden in 2015, wherein it is not going to take part after the relocation of this competitors to the US.
A number of initiatives from civil society actors additionally purpose to strengthen the institution of American soccer in Morocco, like that of the “We Can Morocco” affiliation which organized this weekend in Sidi Bouknadel (Salé), a coaching camp for younger individuals and a masterclass for Moroccan gamers.
On this regard, the president of the affiliation and founding father of the American girls’s soccer membership “Jaguars”, Fouziya Madhouni indicated that the motion of the entity she chairs focuses on the promotion of training via sport in profit kids and adolescents by instructing them English and introducing them to American soccer specifically.
This initiative, organized in partnership with the municipality of Sidi Bouknadel and the American “Star Wright” Basis, consists of bringing American skilled gamers enjoying within the Nationwide Soccer League (NFL) to lift consciousness of this sport in Morocco and share their expertise with Moroccan gamers, she instructed MAP, including that given the rising curiosity on this self-discipline, an academy devoted to American soccer will likely be created within the commune of Sidi Bouknadel.
For his half, skilled NFL participant Earl Wolff, who performed for the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Washington Redskins and the Indianapolis Colts, famous that this primary coaching camp in Morocco goals to lift consciousness of American soccer. amongst younger individuals in Morocco and Africa.
He indicated that the dedication of the “Star Wright” basis additionally consists of offering tools to encourage the observe of sports activities generally and American soccer specifically.
This initiative is more likely to make Morocco a bridgehead in the direction of the African continent for the event of this sport, he stated.
2024-06-21 09:26:50