Football Gap Year

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:

Coach Football Ecuador A fantastic way to combine a love of football with time in Ecuador. You’ll work at children’s football schools, helping with training sessions and competitions, refereeing games and teaching English. You can combine it with Spanish lessons if necessary. Costa Rica Sports and Teaching 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. Football Academy Brazil Hone your skills in the Real Sport football academy, run by former World Cup defender, Jose Oscar Bernardi. Focus areas include passing, dribbling and finishing. Plus, you’ll get a unique insight into the Brazilian passion for football. Football Volunteer Ghana Use your love of football to inspire and educate children from disadvantaged backgrounds. You’ll work on a street project or a talent academy, organising training sessions and tournaments, refereeing, advising on tactics and teaching new exercises. Zambia Football and Community Project Become a hero to young footballers. Coach youngsters from orphanages and schools and develop their talent, or just make them smile again. You can also help build and paint schools or get involved with an elephant project.