Team Keepers win first Global Goals League in Jordan
November 26, 2022
10 teams. 17 Global Goals. 102 female coaches living in Jordan from the Eir Coach Program. The first season of the Global Goals League has come to an end. Final match day was Friday November 25th in Amman, Jordan.
The first edition of the Global Goal League concluded today, with team Keepers winning first place and Team Revive playing for Global Goals 4 equality education runners-up. The League Finals were hosted by the American Community School ACS with local partner Rise For Good founded by Princess Lara Faisal.
Team Keepers have been creating awareness about Global Goal 15 Life On Land by teaching kids in public schools how to plant in recycled plastic bottles, removing trash from the street, building houses and food/water dispensers for stray animals out of plastic bottles.
“As a team, we think about life on land. Therefore our new action is that we are going to build houses for stray animals to sleep in, out of plastic bottles. Each house will include homemade food and water dispensers for people to fill up from time to time,” - Team Keepers.
LaLiga’s Ambassador, Aintzane Encinas, joins as Ambassador for the new Play activist League.
“The training with the women's coaches was great, they are the change for the next generations and the fact that they can have training will bring a lot of value in order to grow in equality,” - Aintzane Encinas.
More League winners:
Runners-up: Team Revive
3rd: Dreams Team
4th: Leaf A Mark & Beat Team
Highest Play Spirit: Beat Team
Highest Football Points: Team Revive
Highest Style Points: Keepers
Highest Crowd Points: Leaf A Mark & Phoenix
LaLiga, Rise for Good, and Eir Soccer have joined forces to design and introduce this new activist female football league including a scoring system that is changing the value of winning. All teams compete in football as well as actions for the UN’s 17 Global Goals and are scored in the categories: Style, Crowd, Action and Football.
The new league format is playful, purpose driven, and at the same time offers all women a physical active network.
The 2022 League players aged 18 to 48, and are all admitted to the Eir Coach Program. They will become certified Eir activist football coaches graduating November 26, 2022. Through preparing to play within the League they have elevated their coaching education and ability to enhance the talents of the people and players around them.
The League will formally launch in the spring of 2023 and is open to all women who want to make a difference in their community, feel the power of being part of a team and expanding the scope of what sport can do for change. The League welcomes every woman. Pre sign-up can be done here.
Press Release from LaLiga here.
The League is financially supported by HIKMA Pharmaceuticals and Novo Nordisk Foundation.
All teams and more information https://ggwcup.com/
Media contact Majken Gilmartin, CEO Eir Soccer, mmg @ eirsoccer . com +4540107099
LaLiga is a global, innovative and socially responsible organization which is a leader in the leisure and entertainment sector. It is a private sports association composed of the 20 public limited sports companies (SADs) and clubs of LaLiga Santander and the 22 of LaLiga SmartBank, and is responsible for organizing professional football competitions in Spain. LaLiga is the football competition with the most social media followers in the world, with over 150 million followers across 17 platforms in 20 different languages. With its headquarters in Madrid (Spain), it is present in 41 countries through eleven offices and 44 delegates. The organization carries out its social work through its Foundation and was the world's first professional football league to establish a league for intellectually challenged footballers: LaLiga Genuine Santander.
Eir, a Danish non-profit sports association who in partnership, delivers sports and physical activity programs for girls and women. For the last 5 years Eir has organized 20 activist World Cups (Global Goals World Cup / GGWCUP) in 14 countries. Leading up to match day each team champions their Global Goal, and is ranked by the action taken for the Goal on and off the field. Those awarded not only win a tournament. They amplify their calls to action and create impact, locally and globally:
6.400 women have played.
84 % of our players believe they are stronger role models in their community after participating in a GGWCUP and 94 % are still playing seven months after a tournament.
344 women applied to join the first Eir Coach Program in Jordan. 100 were accepted and will graduate November 2022. All are invited to join when the League launches in the spring of 2023.
Rise for Good is a social enterprise established in Jordan in 2019 by HRH Princess Lara Faisal, and designed to mobilize and support individuals and organizations to take positive actions for community, for society, and for the natural environment. In partnership with others, and through sport and inspiration, Rise for Good works with youth, women and girls to build communities of active global citizens. This is the third partnership between Eir and Rise For Good in Jordan. Rise For Good hosted the GGWCUP Jordan in 2021 and is the implementing partner running the Eir Coach Program Jordan edition.