Club Brugge Foundation sets up its own amputee team
The Club Brugge Foundation is taking another important step towards inclusivity with the launch of a new football team for people with amputations, the ‘Club Brugge Amp Team’. Partner Aqtor! will proudly adorn the match shirts. With the ‘Club Brugge Amp Team’, players who are missing part of their limb due to an accident, illness or congenital defect can still play football again. Field players are missing one (part of their) leg and goalkeepers are missing one (part of their) arm. The use of crutches allows all players to enjoy the game of football.
“We are proud to introduce an additional member of the Club family with the launch of the ‘Club Brugge Amp Team’ project. Besides the weekly training sessions, we also organise specialised coaching, various workshops and social gatherings for the team. In this way, we not only promote sporting performance but also want to contribute to the general well-being of our players. Thus, this project also stands for more than football.”
Peter Gheysen, Head of Foundation at Club Brugge
The ‘Club Brugge Amp Team’ played their very first international amputation football tournament under the Club Brugge banner last Saturday (25 November). In Cologne, they competed against other amputation teams from Germany, England and Georgia.
Nobody Offside
The ‘Club Brugge Amp Team’ project is part of the European Nobody Offside project, which together with the European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF), the Spanish Fundación Real Betis Balompie, the Romanian Football Federation, the Dutch KNVB and the European Football for Development Network (EFDN) aim to activate and involve persons with an amputation from all over Europe.
