Presentation of the Football 59 Together association
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The Football 59 Together association
Our history
“This is the story of a young man from roubaix, in the north of france, and who arrives to paris region. During futsal training, I saw this fairly thin young man with a side strand coming in. During his first ball strikes, I was impressed by his ball skills, speed and use of his left foot. I started seeing him more often in the neighborhood and told him that if he needed help I was there for him.
Between futsal and the hard life he’s living, he can hardly focus on what he loves more than anything else in the world. Football allowed him to escape, to exert himself and to forget all his problems.
He was always there whenever he could at 7pm at the futsal slot organized by the community center. Joy and smiles could appear as well as his insolence and his recklessness on the field might have upset some opponents. He could have been entitled to a bright future in the world of futsal.
Thursday, July 17, 2020 around 11:30 pm, the 21-year-old from Roubaix succumbed to his injuries. We bid him a last goodbye one week later.
Here is a phrase that is still echoing in my head: “Keep doing what you’re doing for the kids of the neighborhood, one day it will bear fruits…“
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The Football 59 Together association
Our challenges,
our values
Football Fifty-Nine Together association started as an association on April 14, 2021, created by Qénân LUHATA.
The main goal of the association is to educate through sport using football as a medium of social integration via programs offered to the young people of Massy and nearby cities during school holidays.
The idea is to work on gender equality in sports but also in our society.
To promote a sport practice that is based on equity and the respect of people.
To encourage using sports as a medium for social cohesion, education, personal development and to make better use of sport practices as tools of insertion.
To allow young members to discover different jobs linked to sport as well as art.
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The Football 59 Together association
Our Actions
Discovering audiovisual jobs
Discovering audiovisual jobs
With a young, 23-year-old self-taught photographer from Massy, we have set up 2 types of workshops with diverse objectives.Discovering new sporting activities
Discovering new sporting activities
The benefits of practicing sports on one’s health have been proven: it reduces cardiovascular diseases, breast cancers, metabolic diseases, but also improves mental health, self-esteem and strengths learning skills.Personal development
Personal development
We organise workshops about self-esteem, self-image, perception of the future and one’sown qualities,weaknesses and fears, that they may face on a daily basis.
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The Football 59 Together association
Our Youth
Being part of the FFNT adventure has taught me a lot.
Thanks to this association, I got to see young people discovering, learning and having fun.
It gives them an opportunity to find themselves, to open their minds and to open up to new horizons.
FFNT has lifted the limitations a lot of young people had in their personal and professional backgrounds. It is part of this beautiful evolution. the youths is an achievement for me too, it’s a feeling you can’t find anywhere else. I saw young people help each other, share with one another, etc. This association has created a lot of solidarity.
FFNT is more than an association, it’s a family <3
My name is Matys, I’m 16, and I’m a member of the Football 59 Together association.
When I first started with the association, it was in May 2021. I was interested in the project and got to know it thanks to some of my friends. I missed the summer vacation activities so I was pretty upset.
When it comes to adapting, it was easier to feel at ease because I know most of the young people of the association, whether it’s from my club or high school.
The association brought me a lot of things, I did stuff that I might not have done before with other people. It allows everyone to have fun both for people in need and those who aren’t.
And I always enjoyed all the activities I took part in. As for the mentoring of the association, it is well managed from a to z: all volunteers participate in activities and are there to advise or inform us on many things. All activities are scheduled between such and such a time so everything is well organized. I thank the founder of the association, Qénân, for everything he has done for us, young teenagers, because there are not many people that give their time for these kinds of events.
I’ve been a participant and a volunteer in the association for almost a year now (since the beginning) and honestly, we’ve discovered some things we wouldn’t have thought of before, sports- and culture-wise. Qénân truly wanted to makeus try out things we aren’t necessarily used to, like photography for exemple. We often did workshops in Massy or Paris (with Hicham @jeuneflingue)!
Personally, it’s mostly about marketing. We had the opportunity to have a lot of workshops and activities with speakers and it was very interesting, especially for our future studies, it managed to give us ideas!
I can’t wait to keep this great momentum that has only the best in store for us!
I was one of the first to join the association and it was an excellent decision, which was incredibly worthwhile in the sense that they listen in both good and hard times.The association helps us build our future by supporting us in our projects and by propelling us upwards without ever abandoning us.
Thank you Football Fifty-Nine Together and Qénân <3