When I am on the football pitch, my only concern is about winning, competing, helping my team mates and pleasing the public. Outside, my personal fight is addressed to a firm cause: to eradicate the inequality
My origins in the Sao Paolo Favelas made me understand that not everybody is born with the same opportunities and that human beings erect even more barriers.
Football has shown me that a simple ball with few players on a football pitch can bring everybody onto the same level of conditions and possibilities. Football helped me to grow, to believe in myself and to understand that our efforts on the football pitch can be applied to real life.
For me, Dibanisa is a dream come true. Something as simple as a ball, a goal and a football pitch can bring fun and essential values for life to the disadvantaged youth: Comradeship , Tolerance, and superseding social and cultural barriers.
Marcos Senna | Football Player
