Football is undoubtedly the most popular sport in the world. Moreover, it also brings all sorts of benefits to the ones that play it. It is a sport that cannot be practiced independently. Football is a team game that requires you to listen, talk, follow the rules and be aware of everyone else on the field - even your opponents. A favorite sport of people of all ages, football provides an easy way to burn off excess energy. This is how we keep our body and spirit healthy. The game gives a sense of motivation and loss to something bigger than our individual pursuits. 

Social workers from IOM Bulgaria provide the opportunity to practice the sport to unaccompanied minors who have a longer-term stay in Bulgaria or those who wish to settle here. Yesterday, the IOM social workers enrolled two boys accommodated in the IOM's safety zone at RRC Sofia - Voenna Rampa, for football training in the Rakovski sports complex. These are two out of a total of four children to date that we have provided professional soccer training to. 

This activity was implemented within the framework of the project „“Support for asylum seekers in Bulgaria” and the project „Providing social and psychological support to asylum seekers in Bulgaria“,funded by the National Program of Bulgaria under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund 2014-2020.