ISF Football Festival Spreads Sport for Good in Battambang ISF’s Football Programme team is back in the capital after four action-packed days of travel and sport in Battambang. Each year, the team brings our Football Festival to a Cambodian province to spread grassroots football and social impact lessons. This year they ventured ...
ISF Remembers Anthony Alderson We are saddened to report that Anthony Alderson, a member of ISF’s extended family, passed away recently in New Zealand. Mr. Alderson played a pivotal role in the formation of the ISF Football Programme. Anthony Alderson in 2007 sharing burgers with ISF football players This ...
ISF Contributes to a Plastic Free Future in Cambodia Earth Day may be firmly in the rearview, though here at ISF our commitment to positive environmental change is ongoing. Especially in the low-income neighborhoods which house our students. These districts in Phnom Penh often have poor waste management systems, resulting in piles ...
ISF Football Festival 2019 Heads to Battambang Following a short break after our Youth League and All Abilities events, the ISF Football Programme team is preparing for football festival 2019. Visiting a different rural Cambodian province area each year, the festival aims to harness the power of sport to give children who ...
ISF brings Coach Development Courses to Siem Reap Hot on the heels of the culmination of the ISF-AIA Youth League 2018/19, four of our coaches - Panha, Channa, Makara and Thanin - traveled to Siem Reap Province to lead a football coach training workshop to teach others how to use football as ...
ISF brings Coach Development Courses to Siem Reap Hot on the heels of the culmination of the ISF-AIA Youth League 2018/19, four of our coaches - Panha, Channa, Makara and Thanin - traveled to Siem Reap Province to lead a football coach training workshop to teach others how to use football as ...
Access to education & sport changed Puna's life 19-year old Puna grew up in extreme poverty where there was constant livelihood and food insecurity at home which meant that she missed out on an education and a childhood for the first ten years of her life. Today, she has overcome the odds ...
On 18 October 2018, two coaches from CELTIC FC came to coach ISF coaches at our Education Centre in Stung Meanchey. Coaches Graham Diamond and PJ Corr covered basic skills such as passing, receiving and controlling (especially thinking ability). Twenty ISF coaches participated in the training. This is the second consecutive year we've welcomed the Celtic coaches ...
Yim Sovath coaches 78 children and young adults aged 10-22 years old of mixed abilities each week, providing technical football skills and social impact training. Many of his players participate in the AIA-ISF Youth League which he acknowledges as the driving force behind the focus and determination of his players to succeed. Sovath is a ...
For the past six years ISF has been working closely with Coaches Across Continents (CAC) to develop the social impact side to our football programme. CAC is a global leader in sport for social impact, focusing on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to address issues such as: female empowerment, including gender equity; conflict prevention, including social ...
We are delighted to announce that coach Tith "Nara" Sovannara has been nominated for Courageous Use of Sport Award, supported by WWE . The award recognises individuals who have shown dedication and courage in using sport to improve their communities, standing up against injustice and discrimination – often at great personal risk. The shortlisted individuals have all ...
As part of our goal to be truly inclusive, we are pleased to announce that ISF's Football Programme now includes wheelchair users. Ahead of the Football for Hope All Abilities Tournament on 23rd December, our coaches spent ten days with Jens Naumann from the German Wheelchair Federation and a group of young wheelchair users from ...
