Teatre Lliure: Jane Eyre: una autobiografia
Based on the life of Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer. He managed to rehabilitate street kids by keeping them off drugs and crime by turning them into soccer…
Teatre Lliure: Jane Eyre: una autobiografia
Based on the life of Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer. He managed to rehabilitate street kids by keeping them off drugs and crime by turning them into soccer players and building a whole team. A retired sports-teacher and sports -enthusiast Vijay (60 yrs) from Nagpur, often comes across a bunch of teenage goons from nearby slums who hang around wasting their time in playing cards, fighting, smoking, robbing passersby. Vijay takes initiatives and introduces football to these slum-dwellers to channelize their energy positively. He wants to transform this set of goons into disciplined football players. its no mean task. Though there are many hurdles in transforming such undisciplined homeless bunch into a disciplined organized team, he perseveres. He believes that these homeless kids possess extraordinary skills and have potential. He believes they need to feel the validation and trust to become trustworthy themselves. He sacrifices a lot and continues the struggle against all odds. Vijay's vision to transform these homeless children's wretched life becomes a reality as he takes them at another level by entering into the world's biggest football tournament - the "homeless Soccer''. The twists and turns, and turbulent times make the impossible possible. Kids belonging to a slum area in Nagpur who are actively in involved in all kinds of bad activities like theft,stealing ,riots and also take drugs openly.Vijay Borade is a football coach at St John's college right opposite the slum he and his wife believe in social causes and always help the needy.Vijay notices the talent of slum kids and asks them to play football in between them in return for money the kids do agree but further take it as a passion and decide to play with sporting spirit without charging anything.Vijay then decides to have a match between his slum team and St John's college team where the college coach believes that they will easily washout the slum kids.The slum team manages to win over the much hyped college team further rising hopes of Vijay where he decides to have a football tournament of slum dwellers from allover India. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com
Teatre Lliure: Jane Eyre: una autobiografia
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Based on the life of Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer. He managed to rehabilitate street kids by keeping them off drugs and crime by turning them into soccer players and building a whole team. A retired sports-teacher and sports -enthusiast Vijay (60 yrs) from Nagpur, often comes across a bunch of teenage goons from nearby slums who hang around wasting their time in playing cards, fighting, smoking, robbing passersby.
Vijay takes initiatives and introduces football to these slum-dwellers to channelize their energy positively. He wants to transform this set of goons into disciplined football players. its no mean task.
Though there are many hurdles in transforming such undisciplined homeless bunch into a disciplined organized team, he perseveres. He believes that these homeless kids possess extraordinary skills and have potential. He believes they need to feel the validation and trust to become trustworthy themselves.
He sacrifices a lot and continues the struggle against all odds. Vijay's vision to transform these homeless children's wretched life becomes a reality as he takes them at another level by entering into the world's biggest football tournament - the "homeless Soccer''. The twists and turns, and turbulent times make the impossible possible.
Kids belonging to a slum area in Nagpur who are actively in involved in all kinds of bad activities like theft,stealing ,riots and also take drugs openly.Vijay Borade is a football coach at St John's college right opposite the slum he and his wife believe in social causes and always help the needy.Vijay notices the talent of slum kids and asks them to play football in between them in return for money the kids do agree but further take it as a passion and decide to play with sporting spirit without charging anything.Vijay then decides to have a match between his slum team and St John's college team where the college coach believes that they will easily washout the slum kids.The slum team manages to win over the much hyped college team further rising hopes of Vijay where he decides to have a football tournament of slum dwellers from allover India. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com.