Our training in La Gonave went really well. Representatives from all 8 schools that were invited came: Four from Anse a Gale and four from Palma.
Not only did the schools send a coach, administrator and chaplain to be trained, but there were at least 4 school directors who came as well.
Samuel Dorsainvil, the Technical Director and head coach of the Haitian National Futsal team trained the coaches, I trained the administrators and our summer intern from a local seminary, Fenick, trained the chaplains. Lucasse, our other Ambssadors Football staff member took care of logistics.
Each afternoon after the training we played futsal together so they could see and experience how it is played. Those who played really liked the 4-a-side plus goalie format of Futsal and both days we played until 10 goals were scored!
This training was in preparation for a pilot project evangelistic tournament to be held from August 18 to the 20th when a team of 5 young adults from Canada arrive. This Canadian team raised the funds for the training and the tournament.
We also met a family from California that has donated lots of soccer equipment to schools on La Gonave. Last year they sponsored a tournament for high school students with over 22 teams.
The family has four boys, all of whom play soccer, and so we played soccer with them one afternoon at the youth center they are building in one of the poorest sections of town.
While there I took this picture of a cute little girl who was playing in a water basin!
They put us in touch with all the schools that participated in the tournament and they want us to form teams at their schools and train leaders in Futsal as well.
So we hope within a short time to have at least 30 schools on La Gonave trained in Futsal and ready to participate in evangelistic tournaments this fall!
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