ABOUT US

“The best team to coach is that of orphans”…? (it increases)

No, it is the one where the parents of young athletes are informed, educated, responsible, aware of the children's needs and expectations and respectful, Always, of their role and the work of all the figures involved in the Football School (and in general in the sports club, of any discipline). So that they can support their children in their sporting career in the correct way, ensuring it is as long as possible, peaceful and fruitful.
Mission impossible? Perhaps, but you have to try.

The Sports Parents School (SGSP) it is a reality born in 2023 based on an idea by Alessandro Crisafulli with the Asd DivertiSport association. This is a unique project on the national territory, which arises from what is a real emergency, “the most pressing of all, in Italian youth football", according to the founder: inform and train mothers and fathers of underage athletes so that they can best support and accompany them, and correctly, their children's path in the world of sport.

Avoiding all those deviant behaviors which unfortunately we witness every damn Sunday on fields and pitches in every corner of the country. Actions that often end in violence (physical and verbal) and create an imbalance in the competitive activity of children, creating a short circuit in their motivation. And helping to create that polluted environment that characterizes it the Italian youth system and would immediately need a drastic "Climate Change" led by the Sports Institutions.

THE FOUNDER

Alessandro Crisafulli

Professional journalist, collaborates and has collaborated with some of the main Italian newspapers, including Il Giorno and Gazzetta dello Sport. Author of the exclusive investigation “Sick Football, Wasted Talent” for the Sun Site 24 Ore.
Manager, sports consultant and teacher, member CONI Lombardy Culture and Sport Commission, responsible for CONI MB strategic projects, Speaker of the States General of the World of Football and Sports. Consultant for the development of youth sectors, both amateur and professional and creator of the first football and multisport kindergarten in Italy for children 2-6 years, now head of GO-ALL franchising development. He formed with his events beyond 5.000 Italian coaches.
Creator of the Sports Parents School, speaker at meetings at schools and football schools, author of sector publications, commentator at TeleLombardia.
“Everything I know about life, I learned it from football".

MISSION

The purpose of the SGS (which makes use of the collaboration of pedagogists, psychologists, former referees and other professionals) it is therefore – through specific actions to be carried out together with Institutions, you have Club, to local authorities – raise awareness and involve mothers and fathers in the SportEducativo project of Italian football schools and, more generally, of sporting realities of all disciplines. Explaining and sharing goals for physical growth with them, technique, educational, relational and psychological aspects of children and young people.
Promoting public initiatives, meetings, training evenings, new forms of communication, investigations and studies on the topic, the collection of testimonials from champions and professionals in the sector, as well as the promotion and sharing of Good practice.
Training parents means helping kids first and foremost, safeguarding their psycho-physical well-being and contributing to the prevention of dropout, worryingly growing plague (in the decade 2009-2019 prepandemic on average the 55% of the boys among the 10 and i 16 He's hanging up his shoes for years, with annual peaks of 65%, Figc data). At the same time it means helping the coaches, who will be able to work more serenely to improve the athletes, and companies, that will be able to transform mothers and fathers and “number one dangers” to precious resources. Establishing a virtuous circle that prevents, in the name of sporting culture, the "toxic cloud" pollutes the stands of youth competitions.

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