Intersections

“So the schools are shut, our Primary School coaches can’t do the coaching. We also run small-sided centers so we can’t do girls football, disability activities or sport for the poor. Our staff are putting out resources, they put out videos, but you know it yourself, it’s not the same as having a ball and being able to go out into an area. So from a development point of view, it’s probably been a nice chance to actually sit down and evaluate what you’re doing and actually look at creating new resources.”

“We are not allowed to lose the people. We need to have them on our side. We cannot live without other people. This is maybe the lesson that we learned. And maybe this is what we should do, better and more. Bring more often and with a higher intensity people together.”

“I think it makes people more aware of the social business of football. I mean at the moment a lot of our development officers are probably not doing a lot of football related stuff. So we have deployed quite a number of our officers and are collecting pharmaceutical prescriptions from pharmacies and delivering them to local vulnerable people at the moment. So it is nearly like a pharmaceutical delivery service at the moment.”

“I think the industry will be changed. It will be changed and it will be developed because people have more time to think. To rethink, to rewrite the strategy. I think because we had enough time, it was like we were forced to have this time.”