“Football, detention and re-education”: the docufilm about soccer in prisons

"Football, detention and re-education" the docufilm about soccer in prisons

Telling the emotions, courage, determination, climbs overcome and challenges of life through football. After the stories of female soccer players with their dreams and climbs overcome, comes the short film “Football, detention and re-education", which is the next step in the project, conceived by the ’Social Responsibility Areaà of the Amateur League, “Above the Barrier”. Thus, a continuity is established under the sign of’inclusion, the fight against stereotypes and gender discrimination. 

Luca De Simoni, LND Social Responsibility Area Coordinator, who presented the short film in the Sky Sport studios, says : "Football has the extraordinary possibility of playing different roles at the same time because it helps psycho-physical well-being, has an important social function, helps inclusion and even manages to make young people who practice it feel free in a context of detention".

All this contributes to orienting in a path of re-education, where loyalty, solidarity, respect for others and rules can become a social tool and an opportunity for recovery. 

In the Padua and Lanciano prison houses, in particular, sports practice transmits positive relational models of support for a future path of reintegration. A successful match is achieved through cooperation and the breaking down of all barriers, from language to hierarchical.

The short film, produced by the Bonfire communications agency, helps mark a path that makes one feel part of a new reality to re-enter the one outside bars.  

The protagonists of the docufilm tell their stories through the excitement in sharing their soccer successes during interviews, with their children, for example, or through training and a sense of teamwork. For many of them, breathing in the’air of competition is tantamount to regaining a feeling of freedom to commit to a new path in life.