Kick4Life FC
| Kick4Life FC | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Kick4Life Football Club | ||
| founding | 2005 (official) | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | |||
| Places | 1,000 | ||
| league | Lesotho Premier League | ||
| 2018/19 | 5th place | ||
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The Kick4Life FC (short K4L ) is a football club based in Maseru , capital of Lesotho . He is based in the Football for Hope Center on the Nightingale Road , which is close to the center . The club goes back to an initiative launched in the United Kingdom in 2005 and calls itself "the world's first club exclusively focused on positive social change".
history
In 2005, the British brothers Steve and Pete Fleming founded in Southampton the initiative Kick4Live. Before that, they had covered around 400 kilometers playing football in Malawi . The following year they selected Lesotho as the recipient country, as it was particularly hard hit by the HIV / AIDS crisis. Since then, the aim of the initiative has been to improve the living conditions of young people in Lesotho.
In 2008 the coach of the English national soccer team at the time , Fabio Capello , took part in a Kick4Life viewing tournament in Lesotho. Even Prince Harry attended the tournament. In 2009 a soccer team played for the first time under the name Kick4Life. In 2011 construction began on the Lesotho Football for Hope Center, which includes sports fields, classrooms and a vegetable garden. It is one of the 20 Centers for 2010 financed by FIFA as part of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa . In 2012 a further branch was established in the USA. In 2014, a restaurant and the K4L Hotel & Conference Center were added to the site, which are intended to offer training and employment opportunities and the profits of which are to flow into social work .
Kick4Life FC was founded in 2014 . The men's team has played in the Lesotho Premier League since the 2014/2015 season . In the first year of 14 teams, eleventh place was achieved, in the 2015/2016 season sixth place. The coach has been Leslie Notši, who has already coached the Lesotho national team , since November 2015 , and Elizabeth Yelimala is a woman's assistant. The women's team plays in the Lesotho Super League and thus also in the top national division. Director of Football is the British Chris Bullock.
The soccer players are also used in social work and health education. Part of the work of the center is the screening and training of football talents.
See also
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Description at de.fifa.com
- Lesotho, un calcio alle ingiustizie sociali, la storia del Kick4Life Football Club. Eurosport Italy from December 14th 2017 (Italian)
- Andreas Bock: A better life through football. 11freunde.de from April 19, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait at europlan-online.de (English), accessed on July 9, 2016
- ↑ Official homepage (English), accessed on July 9, 2016
- ↑ a b c A supportable club in Lesotho. de.fifa.com on July 5, 2016, accessed July 9, 2016
- ↑ a b c d Our history kick4life.org (English), accessed on July 9, 2016
- ↑ a b New trainer at kick4life.org (English), accessed on July 9, 2016