Why do I want to work within sport? Sport is something unlike anything else. A burst of passion when an athlete strives to achieve a life-long dream, a spark of celebration as a spectator watches his team score a goal and indeed the nail biting last minutes of a game still in the balance. For me though there is something even more special about sport; it can bring unity and fellowship to a group of unacquainted people, it can, for if only a short while, eradicate cultural or ethnical differences and raise hope where tragedy seems to have taken it away. I have been a sports fan and participant feeling jubilation and disappointment, unity and fellowship. However I have also witnessed the healing power of sport. Through my experience with Hapoel Tel-Aviv’s social development programme, Mifalot, I have seen how two groups of people, whom in a normal world are completely set aside by differences, can come together peacefully. I have also seen how sport can come to a place like Haiti and give a group of people hope to carry on. It is for these reasons I am proud to say I want to work within sport.
This post was written by James Fattal, a former International Ambassador for Mifalot.
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