If you are considering a gap year in sports, why not take a football gap year. Real Sport Experience has a number of football programmes to choose from, allowing you to play football abroad as part of a whole football gap year.
Gap years and career breaks are no longer exclusive and specifically focussed on work and travel. Many people now choose to do sports travel abroad and even go on adventure sports abroad. Elements of the sports travel are those choosing to do football gap years. This is where someone uses their time out to focus on coaching football abroad or joining a football academy to improve their football skills.
Football gap years are becoming more and more common, with opportunities to be a football volunteer increasing all of the time. Many parts of the world, Africa in particular, need more sports volunteers to help with sports coaching. Teaching football in Africa is a great way to spend your gap year and an even better way to give something back.
To learn more about taking a football gap year, use the following links:
Help Coach and play football with keen young players in a country where the sport borders on religion by assisting with well thought-out training and matches. Encounter Ghana’s other undiscovered marvels including rainforests, golden beaches and some of Africa’s friendliest people!
Use your football knowledge to help coach these children in a country where football fever is building as it prepares to host the World Cup in June 2010. You will be running coaching sessions, organize tournaments and share your passion for football with African children.
Choose the 14 week placement which includes accommodation and meals during the 2010 Football World Cup!
Help with PE lessons in local schools and organise games of football and other sports. Your skills and enthusiasm will inspire underprivileged children who often have to make do with little or no equipment.
