Maccabi Tel Aviv and "Educating for Excellence" will continue their collaboration once again in the 2014/15 season
The budding tradition established last year of collaboration between the community engagement activity of Maccabi Tel Aviv FC and the "Educating for Excellence" organisation opened up a new chapter today with a joint practice between Maccabi Youth Division players and children participating in the "Educating for Excellence" programme. Today was the first of a number of trainings planned for the Youth Division's 2014/15 season.
The "Educating for Excellence" organisation strives to create equal educational opportunities by reducing social gaps in Israeli society. The founders of "Educating for Excellence" recognised that children and youth with potential for excellence who live in Israel’s periphery do not have the appropriate support system that would enable them to realise their potential. After often achieving encouraging results in early education, many of them find it difficult to complete secondary school or integrate into society under the weight of economic and social hardships.
The children who participated today in the joint practice at Maccabi's youth training complex live in the nearby underprivileged Tel Aviv neighbourhoods of Kiryat Shalom and Shapira. They are all outstanding pupils whose participation in these joint trainings is designed to provide them with the extra support to spur them on to even greater achievements.
Representing the Maccabi Youth Division team at the practice were the Under-10 Team South of head coaches Boaz Bracha and Idan Kazinic. After a warm-up, the youngsters were divided into mixed groups that competed in friendly encounters on the complex's artificial pitch. The joint practices are scheduled to continue on a biweekly basis throughout the 2014/15 season.
