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gerbie ([personal profile] gerbie) wrote2002-11-18 11:34 pm

Disabled football

I taped a programme last friday, just saw the show. Big part was a documentary about a soccer youth team. Not just a team. To be a member you have to be disabled. Some of them are spastic, some have down syndrome, all sorts of handicaps are represented. Every wednesday they play amongst themselves. Once in a while they play a friendly. It was great to see the enjoyment of those kids. Some of them had difficulties standing up, let alone play soccer, but every time they fell down, another one helped them up again. The disabled kids helped the down-syndrome kids by telling them which way to kick the ball.

Highlight was a friendly match they played against Ajax under 7. They actually played against one of the best teams in the world! Before the match their coach, father of one the children, explained some things about his team to the future stars of the famous Ajax academy. During the match the children were having the time of their lives. One boy, whose heart operation went wrong at age two, will never walk properly anymore. But the sheer joy on his face when he scored a goal and ran towards the parents who were cheering them on is worth an award. By the end one of the kids hugged the coach, who then soon had to pass the ball again (he was playing with them). It was a great insight in how football can help people to get along. My eyes were wet by the time it was over.

[identity profile] sandrini.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you mind me to paste this to my diary? It is soo beautiful.

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[identity profile] gerbie.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Do feel free. It's there for anyone to read..

[identity profile] sandrini.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks ;-) Not my lj but the other one..its just so great.

[identity profile] jellyrose.livejournal.com 2002-11-19 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Owwww.. dit zijn de fijne dingen in het leven hoor!!!

Ik zat vorige week het eurovisie songfestival voor geestelijk gehandicapten te kijken en het was echt geweldig. Je zag gewoon het plezier uit hun ogen vliegen en de blijdschap spatte echt van het beeldscherm af. De hele avond heb ik er nog van na zitten genieten!

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[identity profile] gerbie.livejournal.com 2002-11-19 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ik heb alleen een stukje aan het eind gezien, kan me goed voorstellen dat het een stuk leuker is dan het origineel. Zo lang het maar niet TE serieus wordt. Bij de Paralympics in Sydney waren basketballteams waar spelers met Dyslexie waren opgesteld als zijnde zwakbegaafd. Schiet het doel weer voorbij..

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[identity profile] jellyrose.livejournal.com 2002-11-20 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Nou inderdaad, het gaat namelijk niet om de echte competitie, het gaat gewoon om het plezier!

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[identity profile] gerbie.livejournal.com 2002-11-20 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Zo voetbal ik zelf ook. Ben fanatiek, maar voetbal voor alles voor mijn plezier. Misschien is G-voetbal wel geschikt voor mij..

[identity profile] harns.livejournal.com 2002-11-19 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Wat jammer dat ik het gemist heb...

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[identity profile] gerbie.livejournal.com 2002-11-19 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
Misschien is er laat nog wel een herhaling, studio Spaan van afgelopen vrijdag, kijk maar eens in de gids.

[identity profile] sandrini.livejournal.com 2002-11-19 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
reading all this..reminds me again how wrong it is to ask people to *not* get their children which will be disabelled.

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[identity profile] gerbie.livejournal.com 2002-11-19 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Still, it does remain a personal choice. Some people are just not ready for the difficult task of raising children, let alone raising a disabled/down syndrome child.

[identity profile] sandrini.livejournal.com 2002-11-20 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yes off course. But I knew that people with downsyndrom are often even able to make things all alone. taking the tramway, being a actor ect.
So in my opinion not really a Reason.
And I am not a 'pro life' how they call that, aktivist.
What i eman with that I do not understand it, if people just think live without a healty body/mind/brain is not worth it, and people like that can not even enjoy life. Howeever, wasn't their a prozes from somone complaining that his parents have born him from somone in france being disabelled and i guess, unhappy?

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[identity profile] gerbie.livejournal.com 2002-11-21 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
If Reason were as important as you want it to be, the world would have looked much better than it does nowadays