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Northern Ireland Street League
Changing Lives through Football
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What is it?
Northern Ireland Street League is a 5 a-sidefootball leagueset up for the disadvantaged
groups of society.
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Who is it for?
Homeless
Drug and alcohol dependant
Asylum seekers and
Refugees
Long term unemployed
Other disadvantaged groups
What happens?
2 hours of football everyFriday-Belfast and
Derry~Londonderry
Teams playing at least 4
games a week league 3 times a year
Play on 3G pitches
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Why Football?
-Team activity
-Physical Health
-Mental Health benefits
-Discipline
-Motivation
-Breakdown of barriers
-Friendships
-opportunities-education programmes
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Year 1- 2010
Street League-The journey
-Start of Street League(Belfast)with 7 teams including 1 from
Ballymena
-launch of website
-Invitation to All-Ireland
Championships
Homeless World Cup Trails for
Ireland Team)
Belfast Street League player
Ciaran Murphy made it into the
squad
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Year 22011
-Another successful league
-Introduction to Education course
-Another player selected for the
Ireland Homeless World Cup team
Niall McClafferty
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Year 3 - 2012-extra funding from Comic Reliefto provide Education programme until
2015 covering coaching, mental health
awareness and drug awareness courses
-Players become coaches through
the Educational programme
- 11 aside team set up and
presented with kit
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Year 3 continued
- 2012
-Belfast team wins all Ireland
finals in Dublin
-New Street League starts in
Derry~Londonderry by Irish FA
Football For All developmentofficer-Sarah Keys
-Applied to have an NI team in
the Homeless World Cup 2013
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Year 4- 2013-plans start to prepare for thefirst ever NI team to compete in
Homeless World Cup-Poznan,
Poland, August
-players from Belfast and
Derry~Londonderry StreetLeagues take part in trials for the
HWC
-NI International Manager
Michael ONeill take a Street
League coaching session
-August 6-19. Homeless World
Cup-Poznan, Poland
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Have fun andyou have won
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The future for Street League
Grow StreetLeague in Belfast
and North West
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Encourage female
participation
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Have a femaleteam compete at
HWC
Provide training
that leads to
qualifications andemployment
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Provide referee
courses-get
players involved
in running and
managing Street
League
Build our own
homeless World
Cup pitches in
Belfast
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Fundraising plans
League and
World Cup
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Reach out to
more excluded
groups
NI Street Leagueaccessable to all
in NI
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