Sinossi
This is the story of MYFA in Mathane, Kenya: a soccer school established by the retired Canadian diplomat B. Munro in the shantytowns of Nairobi, whose successes – human and sport – have been recognized.
MYFA organization survives on small donations from foreign companies and agencies, but its success depends above all on the amazing energy of the young, self-educated social activists who began playing football and now run MYSA.
On the back of this network, MYSA now runs lending services for football boots and books, as well as clinics and health centers across Nairobi.
It has also created a professional team – Mathare United – in which all players are contractually obliged to do significant social work.
This team has proved good enough to win the Kenyan Championship.
It might be no bad thing if the organization of youth sport in western countries were more directly controlled by the young and more systematically tied to social activism, community service and a commitment to personal and educational development.
Beyond the glitz and the gigantism of the sport industry, the lessons from MYSA make a small but important contribution to the much bigger policy debate that the idea of the Big Society poses.
Dettagli
Anno di produzione: 2012
Regista: carlo ghioni
Paese di produzione: Canada
Lingua: English
film info
| Titolo Originale: | red card to poverty |
| Genere: | documentario |
| Durata: | 15 min |
| Regia: | carlo ghioni |
| Paese di Produzione: | Canada |
| Anno: | 2012 |
| Formato: | HDsr |
| Bob Munro and MYSA kids: |
| sceneggiatura: | carlo ghioni |
| fotografia: | carlo ghioni |
| musica: | françois jolin |
| costumi: | n/a |
| scenografia: | n/a |
| tecnico suono: | mathhew cerantola |
| Winner Acquedolci film festival best doc 2012 |