The boys who participate in the SPEY (Sport for Prevention of Extremism Youth) programme have restarted their activity on football stadiums after months on digital contact: the main format of the pandemic around the world.
The UFEC (Unió de Federacions esportives de Catalunya) has created four groups of boys at social exclusion risk to practise soccer in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
The boys train to transform their psychosocial difficulties into social skills with the help of SPEY technics. At the beginning, they working on self-knowledge, the expect for the needs of the group and theirs dreams.
Boys come from families with certain vulnerabilities or youth centers and sometimes, they cannot acces to quality sports education or they find some administrative problems that make it difficult to develop their life project. For that, SPEY pretends reinforce the personal resources as well as self steem through an alternative narrative to violence and encourage the social inclusion.
The SPEY project is a initiative of the UFEC, financed by the European Comission and carry out by partners of several entities of differents countries: France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Greece and Germany. Everyone hopes that this spring the project will regain when the health systems decreases the pandemic.