viernes, 5 de junio de 2026

MIGRANT LIVES | The Match Migrant Children Lose in the Back Office

Football, often called "the king of sports," is frequently sold as a tool for universal integration. However, for many migrant children arriving in our cities, that door is not always open. For a long time, we have encountered an invisible but devastating administrative barrier: the impossibility of registering with a federation.


When a child, who has crossed borders in search of a better future, arrives at a sports club with the dream of putting on boots and playing, the first obstacle is not an opposing defender, but bureaucracy. The requirement for specific documentation that many foreign minors do not have—or take years to obtain—becomes a sentence of exclusion.

 

Patricia López Muñoz
Student of English Studies
High Technician in Sociocultural Animation  
Specialist in Immigration
High Technician in Social Integration

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MIGRANT LIVES | The Match Migrant Children Lose in the Back Office

Football, often called "the king of sports," is frequently sold as a tool for universal integration. However, for many migrant chi...