Goal League and Tournaments

The approach entailed organizing soccer leagues and tournaments for both boys and girls age between 8-17 years old. The participating teams are paired together to form a cohort, the cohorts formed  are assigned to a mentor whose work is to mentor and  trained peer educators, create awareness, address issues affecting teenagers and offer counseling services to the teenagers. The mentors are young ladies in colleges and universities.

They conduct weekly group meetings with girls’ teams covering topics such as decision making, sexuality, peer pressure, etc. During these sessions, the mentors identify specific cases in the groups in need of personal attention and offer guidance and counseling services to them as most of them have the skill. Goal soccer league and an annual nationwide tournament serve as platforms for mentorship. 

This initiative identifies and recognizes the outstanding academic achievers amongst GOAL players. The program has recognized over 20 players by rewarding them with certificates and school supplies since 2021.

Goal Soccer Academy

Goal Academy provides both boys and girls an opportunity to participate in coached training sessions as well as matches and tournaments with other youth. Current Goal teams include Boys and girls’ Under-7, Under-11, Under-13, Under-15, Under-17.

The academy was started with six from Emabakasi, in 2013. The girls could play soccer with rubber-banded plastic bag ball at KCC grounds. A coach noticed the interest and the talents of the girls and started hosting weekly soccer training sessions with the girls. The team continued to train and membership slowly began to grow.

Today, the Academy host over 130 players’ ages 5 to 17 years, employed five coaches, and the team uses Buru Buru 1 primary school field for weekly training sessions.