With plenty of Indian parents still sceptical of their daughters playing football, video journalist and father Peter Alex puts his own money into an academy in the hope of changing perceptions.
abc.net.au/news/peter-alex-rainbow-football-academy-soccer-india-women-girls/102259370Mariana Alex started playing football at six years old, when her father introduced her to the game.Mariana is the daughter of Peter Alex, a video journalist who started a football coaching club for girls in the state of Assam, in India."I was the first student in the club; now we have so many," Mariana said.
"I wanted to see kids, especially girls, take up football to experience this beautiful game," he said. It attracted the attention of some locals, and now there are about 20 girls in the Rainbow Football Club."I named it Rainbow because our region has various people of caste and creed and tribes, just like the rainbow," he said.Running a football club isn't easy, especially if you've never done it before and don't have funding.
"I didn't have much opportunity during childhood, so was kept confined to amateur football," he said.At the start, Peter invested his own salary into the club, and found a public space to play.
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