DURATION: 45 min

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 10 To 12

AGE: 9 To 18 years old

LEVEL OF TRUST: Medium

LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION: High

LEVEL OF LEVEL_OF_PREPARATION: No

MATERIAL: Yes

TOPIC: universal

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INSTRUCTIONS: No preparation needed.

Football3 is a method of playing sports in three halves (pre-match discussion, football match, post-match discussion).
1. Introduce the difference between Football3 and a standard football game (special rules, three halves, importance of values, role of mediator, no judge)
2. Pre – match discussion: Set the rules (3-5 special rules that tackle social issues; e.g. increasing female engagement) with both groups of youngsters; they have to agree on them together. Divide youngsters into 2 groups. Teams are mixed-gender.
3. Start the match, which is usually shorter (between 10 and 20 minutes). Players are responsible for their match and for complying with the rules that they agreed on. The street worker monitors the match and intervenes (as a mediator) only if the two teams cannot agree and resolve an issue.
4. Post-match discussion. Players reflect on how they respected the rules, the behaviour of the team players, ….
More: https://www.streetfootballworld.org/football3/
https://issuu.com/streetfootballworld/docs/football3_handbook_web_version_engl

MATERIALS: Ball, pitch (e.g. 40 x 20m or smaller), two goals (or something that can be used as a goal), match sheet
COMMENTS, TIPS & TRICKS: 1. Start with max 3–5 special rules so you can add more of them later on
2. You can agree on fixed set of rules which are obligatory