Focus: Sports/social

Start: February 2022

Inspired by our Tigres Femenil Amazonas, this unique social program is born: ‘Ellas Tienen el Balón’ (They Have the Ball), which seeks to promote the development of 100 women’s teams in Mexico each year as a means to promote the physical, psychological and social well-being of young women between 13 and 17 years of age from vulnerable backgrounds.

The program develops more than 900 young women with socio-sports training, to combine the learning and practice of soccer with personal development. Bringing multiple benefits such as strengthening their autonomy, resilience, discipline, teamwork, sexual rights, gender equality, violence detection, among others. We seek, at the end of the program, that they become true amazons in their lives, family and community.

In addition, the practice of soccer is promoted through different dynamics and weekly challenges that not only develop soccer skills, but also accentuate social values and promote group fun.

Benefits of belonging to the program:

All teams are given a training kit (balls, t-shirts, cones etc.), and with their registration the players have access to a private group on the official Tigres Femenil Facebook to have interaction, develop Meets & Greets with players from the professional team, training with experts in nutrition, psychology and professional coaches from our team.
At the end of the program they obtain a Certification as social leaders in their communities by completing all the levels of our didactic digital application, to which they have access throughout the course. In addition, the first 8 teams that best completed their challenges will earn the right to participate in the lightning tournament to be held the last week of May 2022.
This virtual and free program seeks to add an alternative for the benefit of young girls and reverse the physical and psychological consequences that come with living under a vulnerable context and, at the same time, remove them from any harmful context.

Achievements:

900 young women enrolled.
So far they have taken 6 modules out of 9 in virtual mode.
Integration of 100 teams.
60% from Nuevo León and 40% from the rest of Mexico.
Participation in challenges and interaction in a private Facebook group.
80% of the local teams have organized themselves independently to play against each other thus fostering fellowship and their autonomy.

Lightning Tournament:

The first Lightning Tournament was held at the Mario J. Montemayor Sports Unit in San Nicolás de los Garza, with eight of the teams that showed the best performance throughout the ‘Ellas tienen el Balón’ program, and had the participation of 120 young women from various municipalities of Monterrey and other states such as Yucatán and Oaxaca. The Tournament had an important quality in that it was the only one of its kind to be governed by the green and blue card methodology, which seeks to recognize positive attitudes and areas of opportunity, and was even key in defining the results. The girls played at least three games and participated in four training activities that reinforced the topics learned during the program. Within the sports part the Boca Jrs. San Nicolas team took the title of Champion, while in the value competition the first place went to the Amazonas de Conkal de Merida.

SPORTS WINNERS:

First place: Boca Jrs. San Nicolas.
Second place: Spain

Solidarity Value:
First place: Amazonas de Conkal
Second place: Academia Tigres-Cemex Planta Monterrey

Participating teams:
Amazonas de Conkal
Juventus AD Soccer Academy
Tigres Cemex Monterrey Plant
Boca Jrs.
San Nicolas
Spain
Solidarity
Academia 360
Renegadas Academy
CEFOR
Apodaca Academy.