{"id":12581,"date":"2025-07-07T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scort.org\/?post_type=young_coach&p=12581"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:10:46","slug":"angelica-ecuador-2024","status":"publish","type":"young_coach","link":"https:\/\/scort.org\/en\/young_coach\/angelica-ecuador-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelica – Ecuador 2024\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Angelica lives in a vulnerable neighbourhood in Guayaquil, facing many challenges such as lack of basic services, drugs, and a high criminality rate. Her passion for football began when she started taking her daughter to the training sessions. Little by little, she became passionate about it. Now, she volunteers with the Foundation El Legado, feeling empowered in herself as she trains and creates safe spaces on the pitch for the children of her community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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My name is Angelica, I\u2019m 41 years old and I live in La Carolina, a vulnerable neighbourhood in Guayaquil full of many difficulties. I began my journey with football when I started taking my daughter to the women\u2019s football training sessions. At first, I wasn\u2019t very passionate, I just accompanied her to practice. But little by little, I got involved and fell in love with this beautiful world of football.<\/p>\n

For the past two years, I have been volunteering with the Foundation El Legado, working on projects for girls and boys in my community. Near my house, at the bottom of a hill, there\u2019s a small football field where my daughter, my niece, and I go every day to practice. Thanks to support from other foundations, we have some equipment now. We don\u2019t get paid, but we do it with love and passion. The kids feel safe on that field, it\u2019s like a refuge for them from the violence, gangs, and lack of services in the neighbourhood. Sometimes they ask me, \u201cProfe, can we stay longer?\u201d because they want to be there all day.<\/p>\n

Then, I was invited to participate in Scort\u2019s Young Coach Education project. At first, I didn\u2019t know what to expect, I had never flown on a plane before! But I said, \u201cYes, this is my moment, and I want to enjoy it.\u201d In November, I travelled to the first module of the training program, feeling very nervous but excited to meet the other coaches. The training taught me many valuable things, how to work with children, how to use football as a tool for learning, and how to talk about difficult topics like drugs and violence through games. These are lessons I\u2019m now sharing with my community.<\/p>\n

Football has transformed my life. I was once just Angelica, a housewife, but now I am Coach Angelica. People know me by that name, and it fills me with pride. I don\u2019t have a professional degree, but I work hard and with love. Football gave me confidence and empowerment, and I want to help transform other lives too. If I can change the life of just one child, that is a big achievement for me.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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