{"id":6281,"date":"2023-03-26T01:50:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T01:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/?page_id=6281"},"modified":"2023-03-26T01:50:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T01:50:59","slug":"f-c-basra-a-club-with-a-vision-focused-on-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/f-c-basra-a-club-with-a-vision-focused-on-children\/","title":{"rendered":"F.C BASRA a club with a vision focused on children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The CFA&#8217;s Ernie Brennan was invited to watch the children of F C Basara play some games that clearly left an impression; &#8216;I have watched many children&#8217;s soccer coaching sessions and this one  was right up there with the best.&#8217;  With over 10 years experience F C Basara&#8217;s head coach, facilitated games that were fun, non formal and always inclusive.  The club has over 300 children with 10% girls playing at the club.  The gender balance is slowly growing in the right direction.  The club has a bright future with <strong>Shinji Okazaki<\/strong> (2016 Premier League winner with Leicester City) one of the driving forces directing F C Basara. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650010-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" data-id=\"6209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650010-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650010-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650010-300x169.jpg 300w, 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href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650005-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" data-id=\"6207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650005-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650005-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650005-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650005-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650005-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650005-1536x864.jpg 1536w, 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https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650016-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650016-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/S1650016-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is an incredible appetite for grass roots empowerment to grow and meet social responsibility half way; to galvanise intergenerational relationships in a land steeped in tradition.  Mr Tanaka Tomokiyo (Board Memeber United Nations Association of Japan), said, <strong>The Peace Field Project will be embraced by many children, parents, teachers and educationalists from diverse communities in Japan.&#8217;  &#8216;Play is a foundation of childhood.  Societies across Asia and the rest of the world need to be reminded of this&#8217;<\/strong>.  <strong>&#8216;I believe we can support the Peace Field Projects and grow this important network for our childrens children to benefit from.  A modern legacy celebrating peace is a much needed concept in today&#8217;s world&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TANAKA-TOMOKIYO-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TANAKA-TOMOKIYO-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6221\" width=\"409\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TANAKA-TOMOKIYO-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TANAKA-TOMOKIYO-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TANAKA-TOMOKIYO-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TANAKA-TOMOKIYO-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TANAKA-TOMOKIYO-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>L-R Ernie Brennan (Children&#8217;s Football Alliance) Tanaka Tomokiyo (United Nations Association of Japan)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryoma Adachi, AS Laranja, Academy Soccer Coach, is a very popular and well respected practioneer across Kyoto,  He facilitates many coaching sessions for boys and girls of all abilities.    He says, <strong>&#8216;Keeping the children&#8217;s activities fun makes my job happy. They have a lot of energy and all they time they are learning.  There is so much happening in just one session that when games are the focus I have to make sure that the result does not make the priority.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/football-coach-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"6282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/football-coach-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/football-coach-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/football-coach-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/football-coach-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/football-coach-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/football-coach-edited-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/football-coach-edited-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">(Centre) Ryoma Adachi, AS Laranja, Academy Soccer Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CFA&#8217;s Ernie Brennan was invited to watch the children of F C Basara play some games that clearly left an impression; &#8216;I have watched many children&#8217;s soccer coaching sessions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6283,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6281\/revisions\/6283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}