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Haizel Gray (L) administering pyhisical exercises for soccer academy kids at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia, Liberia, 01 October 2016. The national youth soccer academy was established in March 2009 by former national soccer players and enthusiasts, purposely to take kids from the streets, communities and bring them to the stadium, develop, improve and teach them the technical, tactical basic skills in playing soccer, the academy also teach them hygiene and HIV awareness. The soccer academy has five former national players, who serves as coaches, and charges a fee of two US dollars for a kid per month, with an enrollment of about 50 kids in the academy. The academy helps kids obtain scholarships for schooling, and kids in turn plays for the school soccer team. The academy comprises of wayward, street, and communities kids, who drinks alcoholic beverages, which is widely blamed, due to 14 years of civil crisis and high unemployment rate of Liberians, which left parents incapable of taking care of their children and thereby, left children vulnerable and faces the negative consequences of life. The Liberia Football Association (LFA) partners with the National Street Soccer Academy and provides its stadium facilities for use as practices venue, free of charge to the Academy. (Photo by Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA)
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