AIA-ISF Youth League promotes improved health and well-being among Cambodian youth Kheng Ratha* joined ISF’s Catch-up Education Programme almost six years ago and at the same time, began playing football. Today, Ratha is in grade 8 at state school and playing football competitively in the AIA-ISF Youth League. Opportunities to receive a ...
Sola's Story: Inclusion for deaf players brings me joy Sixteen-year-old Sola* began playing football five years ago as a forward for her team of deaf and hearing impaired players. Currently a grade 10 student, Sola cannot believe the positive impact sport is having on her physical and mental health and the joy ...
Goldman Sachs Gives ISF Girls Tournament 2019 On Saturday, 23rd February, over 360 young female players from provinces across Cambodia will travel to the ISF Sports Ground in Phnom Penh to compete in ISF’s 10th annual Girls’ Tournament, a day focused on celebrating women’s inclusion in sport. “I believe that football is ...
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 teenager Kep Rattana*, playing football in the AIA-ISF Youth League was more than a means to escape the hard realities of his everyday life for a few hours a week. But, instead, an opportunity to build a brighter future. Rattana has had a difficult childhood. His mother passed away when he was just four ...
Football coach Sok Ranya is delighted to see the AIA-ISF Youth League introduce healthier habits and choices to young Cambodian players. Ranya coaches 58 children and young adults aged 10-22 years old of all abilities every week, providing social impact training and technical football skills. Many of her players participate in the AIA-ISF Youth League ...
ISF students Sokheng Sengkea and Sok Makara recently had the opportunity of a lifetime when they were invited to represent their country (Cambodia) at the 6th Gazprom Football for Friendship Championship running alongside the World Cup in Moscow, Russia. The Football for Friendship (F4F) programme, supported by Gazprom and FIFA aims at developing youth football ...
For Nita*, a 17 year-old student, finding opportunities to play wheelchair football in Cambodia isn't easy. But ISF’s inclusive Football Programme has beginning to change that. Nita recently attended our All Abilities Football Tournament at the ISF Sports Ground in Preah Theat Village, Phnom Penh and took a few minutes out to tell us more ...
On Saturday, 5 May 2018, we held our annual All Abilities Football Tournament at the ISF Sports Ground in Preah Theat Village, Phnom Penh. The inclusive tournament which brought together players with physical and intellectual disabilities as well as players living with HIV , is one of the few events in Cambodia which offers opportunities for ...
In our commitment to create an inclusive playing space for all, we sent our coaches on a 5-day blind and visually impaired football training programme in March. Wolf Schmidt from Blindenfussball - FC St. Pauli, Germany facilitated the training and all our ISF coaches as well as nine players also benefited from the programme. The ...
ISF is honoured to have been selected to send a Cambodian delegation to the 2018 FIFA Football for Hope Festival in Moscow this year, together with 48 other groups from around the world. The festival, coinciding with the FIFA World Cup will run from 25 June to 5 July 2018 and the young participants will have the ...
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 ...
