GOALSCORE Methodology for coaches

Dear football coach,

Are you working with female football players? Do you want to provide them with valuable knowledge and skills to counteract gender-based violence while training them? Here is how…

The GOALSCORE consortium designed a football methodology whose specific aims are:

1. provide coaches and female players with skills to detect gender-based violence and domestic violence against women;
2. increase awareness and knowledge about gender-based violence and domestic violence against women;
3. increase closeness and empathy toward those who experience violence;
4. promote a sports context that can represent a supportive and safe space to disclose violence which has been experienced or is currently being experienced.

To reach these goals, the GOALSCORE methodology comprises seven activities.

• One preliminary activity is meant for coaches to learn more about gender-based violence and domestic violence against women;
• Six activities are meant to be implemented during the sports season within female football teams – have a look at them!

You can implement some activities or the whole methodology. If you go with the second proposal, try to implement the activities in a fixed order: this is because some of the activities are preparatory to the subsequent ones. All activities come with a detailed description and materials to be printed.

Fight domestic violence with football: find the GOALSCORE methodology below.