Confidence injecting football Clinic held in KwaThema
“It also teaches the players with no disabilities not to undermine people with disabilities.”
The KwaThema Disabled Sports Club hosted a football coaching clinic at the KwaThema Square on February 2.
Coaching clinic is an annual event that was started in 2010 by Aubrey Mathibela, a coach at the club.
“I wanted to develop sports for people living with cerebral palsy and help them believe that they are more than their disability,” he says
The event was for young footballers living with disabilities and those who do not. Mathibela says that this is to build the confidence of the players.
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“I want the players with disabilities to play with those who do not because I want them to know that they can play against anyone.
“It also teaches the players with no disabilities not to undermine people with disabilities,” he says.
Mathibela says that he wanted the clinic to be in a space as public as the KwaThema Square because sports for people living with disabilities are never in public, and people do not actually get to see their abilities and see them play.
Paul Klaas who coaches sports for children with disabilities says this has shown some results in his players.
“You can see that the players are a bit more confident after being exposed to playing with other people,” he says.
When asked who his best player is, Klaas says, “You cannot really know that because their disabilities affect them all differently.”
