Footballers Unite for Tournament
More than 60 footballers with and without learning difficulties will compete alongside each other at a football tournament on Saturday (28 August).
The Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) First Annual Unified Football Tournament will kick-off at 10am at Tattenhoe Pavilion, Milton Keynes.
The seven-a-side tournament will see six teams of people with and without learning difficulties compete against each other.
The event is part of SOGB’s Unified football programme, which is designed to breakdown social barriers between people with learning disabilities, called “athletes”, and those without, known as “unified partners”.
Unified Football national co-ordinator Jason Cornwell said: “We launched Unified Football in this country two years ago with only one team. Now we have 400 athletes and partners on the pitch every week, training, learning about people who are different, making friends and having fun.”
More: www.sogb.org.uk.
Source: Community Newswire