Streetsoccer (Streetfootball)

Tournament

Duale Oberschule Eisenberg as a so called "WM - Schule"

Duale Oberschule

WM Schule (World Cup School), representative of Ukraine

 Partner organizations:

Young people’s soccer foundation with “streetfootballworld”; charity organization “Brot für die Welt”, the Brandenburgian

 youth sports association and the institute for peace pedagogy Tubingen. The project is sponsored by the German ministry

 for eco nomic cooperation and development as well as the German ministry for affairs of family, senior citizens, women 

and youth. German national coach and president of the youths soccer organization Jürgen Klinsmann and Heidemarie

 Wieczorek-Zeul,  German minister for economic cooperation and development, have taken over the patronage for

 “WM-Schulen”.

 Aims of the project:

-         promotion of intercultural diversity and international communication

-         learning and experiencing the role of being hosts

-         playful dealing with Fair-Play and solutions to conflicts

-         creation of a broad national and international public platform for the interaction of soccer and global learning

-         considering regions not involved in the Soccer World Cup 2006

 Street soccer for tolerance

Male and female pupils play “street soccer for tolerance”. The method was developed by Jürgen Griesbach, manager of  the

 project  “streetfootballworld”, in Columbia in 1996 in order to offer young people an alternative to drugs and violence.

 Street soccer for tolerance

 1. Place, field, duration of match

- no special places required, conditions of the grounds are usually not important (asphalt, hard field, lawn)

   But: In our experience playing in the sports hall provokes more aggression than playing outdoors. In sports halls

   communication in  dialogue zones is disturbed by more noise. This leads to frustration and the decline of motivation. 

 - the size of the playing field is approximately 10m*15m, borders can be marked in several ways (e.g. anoraks, small

    bollards, by  sticking adhesive tape,…)

 - goals are approximately 180cm wide and 120cm high

 - duration of match: 7 minutes. There are no half-times. 

 - Generally, 10 to12 minutes are scheduled for a match: 7 minutes for the match, 3 to 5 minutes  for the dialogue zone

    (completely,  before and after the match).

 - Usually, it makes sense to appoint 2 or 3 team-attendants a match. They can support each other in observing the 

    match. You  can make full use of time in the dialogue zone: There is often a hectic atmosphere when the time on the

    tournament schedule  seems to be insufficient. In this case, a team-attendant can evaluate a match in the dialogue zone

    while another team-attendant  prepares the next match.

 2. Special rules

 1. Girls’ rule

One of the female players must score a goal within the match. Only then the boys’ goals will be credited. This rule is elementarily

 connected with social learning at “street soccer for tolerance”.

 Social processes evoked by this rule (e.g. the trial of putting pressure on a girl or blocking an opposing girl in order to get her out

 of the match) become concrete situations of learning which will be discussed in the dialogue zone.

Usually, social interaction as well as importance and roles of individual players of a team quickly change due to other elements

 (such as the Fair-Play rules).

  2. Dialogue zone / agreements

A dialogue zone is marked at the border of the field (e.g. sunshade, sign or similar thing).

Here the teams meet the male or female team-attendant before and after the match. Before the match they have a common

 agreement, i.e. 3 (Fair-Play) aspects, for their match. After the match the players review in how far they obeyed their own rules,

 judge the match and give the Fair-Play points.

 Examples of agreements

-         no distance shots

-         no blocking

-         apologizing

-         no swear words

-         no pushing

-         helping in case someone falls

-         being honest

-         no grumbling

-         keeping cool

-         no laughing at others

-         including the girl into the whole match

-         sharing opposing team’s happiness about achievements

-         shaking hands when saying hello and goodbye

 3. Fair-Play credits

Fair-Play points as well as scored goals decide over victory or defeat. Being good at kicking is not enough to secure victory in a

 game or win the tournament.

 4. Team-attendant’s role

It heavily depends on the team-attendant (called “teamer” whether “street soccer for tolerance” really becomes an event of

 learning and experience:

The knowledge about how to deal in possible situations of conflict, how to determine aspects of learning (which can be

 discussed in the dialogue zone) and how to mediate in the dialogue zone are essential elements for street soccer for tolerance

 as a social method.