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#FOOTBALL - ♀VIDEO Alive & Kicking The soccer grannies of South Africa VIA: @footieshortsorg

Soccer Grannies supports #HerMoJo - a gentle 'nudge' to help get more women & girls, more ACTIVE!  WSNet works with partners to cover and promote Women's Sport worldwide

For hundreds of South African grandmothers, football has become therapy

For hundreds of South African grandmothers, football has become therapy – physical and emotional. Every week, all across the country, they turn up – aged anywhere between 55 and 84 – in groups of up to 30 for training led by volunteer coaches.

Originally started in 2003 by social worker Rebecca Ntsanwisi in Limpopo – the northernmost province of South Africa – the “Soccer Grannies” movement has spread across the country like wildfire. There are now as many as 40 informal teams being established across the country – and there has been interest from women in neighbouring countries, such as Mozambique and Zimbabwe. 

Watch the award-winning documentary on the movement, produced by the New York Film Academy (NYFA).

For more information on the NYFA and the Soccer Grannies project, visit the website https://www.soccergrannies.com

Why not join in? Follow them on Twitter: @BallsForAfrica

More from  #FootballShorts - https://www.footballshorts.org/

MoJoAFRICA - WSNet raises money to help get sports/educational material to girls in Sub-Saharan Africa - can you help - just give us a HIGH5! (£5 £/$/€) - http://wsnet.co.uk/mojoafrica

Promote your WomensSports video on #WSNetTV - send a link to jo.c@wsnet.co.uk with some info about your exercise programme.

Have you seen MoJoManuals? FOOTBALLMoJo, LACROSSEMoJo, ROWMoJo, NETBALLMoJo – www.WSNet.co.uk/MoJoManuals

MoJoManuals addressing the wide range of issues which teenage girls face as they engage in competitive sport. Predicated on 'Physical Literacy' but also cover a range of other emotive issues such as: body image, diet, fit or thin, social media, training with menstruation, coaching style etc. – which impact how girls engage/drop out of sport – and potentially go on to be elite athletes and confident, mature young women outside of sport.

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