Report - Sporting academy

Last summer I went to a project of duration of a week at Sporting academy. On this project I will spend one week at the Sporting Academy where I will play football. I will also have other activities such as karaoke night, treasure hunt, futvolei, table tennis, snooker, pool games, quizzes etc. The participants of this activity must have between 7 and 16 years and they are going to be separated by ages.

What motivated me to participate on this project was that it was a unique opportunity to play football at a well-known Portuguese football team academy, also I went there in hope of meeting with some of the players of the team, unfortunately we weren’t allowed to interact with them.

Our timetable was always full during the morning we woke up at 9 am every day, at 9:15 am it was time for breakfast, from 11 am to 12:30 am we started our first football training of the day then we ate the lunch at 1 pm. During the afternoon we had several different activities and at 5 pm it was lunchtime, we started our second football training of the day from 5:30 pm to 7 pm. The dinner was at 8 pm and after the dinner made more activities until 11 pm which was bedtime.

My personal goals with this activity were learning how to play football better, learn how to play as team and increase my physical health.

This activity is considered to be action, because I will be playing football and increasing my skills at it.

With this project I achieved some of the learning outcomes. I was able to increase my football skills, also I noticed that my best position in a football game was to play as a defender. I developed my communication with my teammates increasing our efficiency as a team, during the week I spend at the Sporting academy I realised that communication was one of the key to win the game. Before going to the academy I was a little bit afraid, because I thought that my football skills weren’t good enough, but fortunately I wasn’t the case

I made some good friends and I still contact with some of them, however I only contact with them through the internet, because some of them don’t live in the same city as I do.

Overall, I think this project was very good to improve my football skills and to learn some different perspectives playing in different positions and to understand in each one do I fit better, but the most important thing was that I felt like I had the schedule of a professional football player during that week.