Soccer and Translation

As we all know very well here in Manila, basketball is the sport to play. We are trying to introduce soccer to the Cuatro Community area. I am working on putting a team together to play in national tournament for the Homeless World Cup. We are working in this area to get people out of poverty and this is one way we can do that by presenting people the opportunity to play soccer. We recently had two Cameroonian professional players displaced into our community. We are able to use these two players to help coach and train Filipinos to be able to play soccer in hope to represent the Philippines in the World Cup in Milan, Italy in September. We have had two training sessions already and it is very interesting. The two Cameroonian players speak French and I speak English and our players all speak Tagalog. So as you can see we have a fun time translating from French to signing to English then to Tagalog. We are also hoping to have a time where a local pastor will also start doing a Bible study with these players at the end of practices. Please pray with us as we are looking for more players and that maybe soccer can catch on here in the Cuatro area.

Kim Courtright