{"id":7605,"date":"2024-11-12T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2024-11-12T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:38:55","slug":"childrens-family-football-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/uncategorized\/childrens-family-football-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILDREN&#8217;S FAMILY FOOTBALL ALLIANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE CHILDREN&#8217;S FAMILY FOOTBALL ALLIANCE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we sat together in Larne High school I was telling Adam Hamilton from Youth Link NI all about the Children\u2019s Football Alliance and about our recent experience at the Global Peace Games 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1171-002-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1171-002-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7608\" style=\"width:404px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1171-002-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1171-002-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1171-002-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1171-002-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_1171-002-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>As I was showing Adam the CFA web site and the recent Activity in New Zealand Adam stood back in amazement at seeing the heading \u2018 Southland FC peace fields project \u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam <a><\/a>actually played for Southland FC during his semi professional career in addition to playing for Crusaders FC the home of the Limestone United peace pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What an incredible connection to hear about and Adam kindly shared a newspaper Article about his time in Southland FC &#8211; Southland express newspaper 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ba163a0a-4668-48d4-aebb-db8e7244e813-002-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ba163a0a-4668-48d4-aebb-db8e7244e813-002-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7610\" style=\"width:339px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ba163a0a-4668-48d4-aebb-db8e7244e813-002-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ba163a0a-4668-48d4-aebb-db8e7244e813-002-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ba163a0a-4668-48d4-aebb-db8e7244e813-002-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ba163a0a-4668-48d4-aebb-db8e7244e813-002-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Adam has recalled with fondness of his experience at Southland FC and his journey into youth work after football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam had spent time recalling memories that he shared with other Northern Ireland players who headed to New Zealand from all sections of the Political divide and how they became great friends and team mates .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018 I could not believe what I was seeing when Brian showed myself the CFA Article whilst talking about football whilst at Larne High school, so many happy memories came back to me . \u2018- Adam Hamilton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace fields projects bring so many people together and it\u2019s great to celebrate another connection across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace through play our common goal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/limestone-united\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/limestone-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TO FOLLOW LIMESTONE UNITED CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CHILDREN&#8217;S FAMILY FOOTBALL ALLIANCE As we sat together in Larne High school I was telling Adam Hamilton from Youth Link NI all about the Children\u2019s Football Alliance and about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7611,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}