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Description: Football Fever Hitting Churches and Communities in 2010

Gila Bola

Football Fever Hitting Churches and Communities in 2010

Football is 'worshipped' through-out the world. The World Cup is testament to that mania and come World Cup season every four years, we can see multitudes of bleary-eyed employees showing up for work in stoned, zombie-like state. And it's football talk everywhere, even in nursing homes!

SPM - not the Form 5 govern-ment exam but Sports Partnership Malaysia - is tapping on this craze to reach out to the public, particularly the youths, through a nationwide football programme to be launched next June in conjunction with World Cup 2010.

The programme has a lofty vision "to bring national transformation through foot-ball" and a mega mission to mobilise churches to raise Life Coaches who will coach and impact 10,000 lives, transforming them into future leaders of sound character.

Under the programme, SPM will train the Life Coaches. Meanwhile, 400 churches throughout the nation will form football teams of 25 members each from their communities.

The Life Coaches will then train the 400 teams and going by this plan, the event will be able to reach 10,000 people.

But it's not just about football. The Life Coaches will seek to impact the lives of their team members with life and leadership skills. These values-infused youths will then be able to contribute positively to the nation, thus realising the event's vision for national transformation.

Life Coaches hold the key to the success of the event. Hence, SPM is looking for men - and women too - irrespective of age and including non-professional sports people, who have the passion for community transformation through the "beautiful game", as the sport is called.

It will be foolhardy to go alone on this huge programme. SPM has therefore secured the partnership of NECF Malaysia and the GDOP (Global Day of Prayer) team.

Once the event is launched next June, there will be a series of coaching clinics and leagues in every state, culminating in the National Cup Final in 2011 where the top two teams of every state will compete for the trophy. But first, SPM will be making the church rounds to promote the event. Look out for them or contact them at sportspartnershipmalaysia@gmail.com



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