Regular training
The foundation of everything. Two or three times a week, on a pitch where the children live. No registration, no membership fees, no requirement to be any good already.
02 / What we do
Sport changes the game.
Community changes lives.
Training, tournaments, tutoring, pitches and a way forward. Six activities that together make up one working model.
01Activities
Football is only
the visible part
From the outside it looks like a football club. Inside it is a safe environment, a regular routine, an adult who can be trusted, and doors opening one by one that the children did not know existed.
Tournaments and matches
Teams from across the towns take part in football and futsal tournaments. For many children it is the first trip outside their own neighbourhood.
A route into clubs
The best and most committed players move into football and futsal clubs where they can play organised national competitions.
Education and development
If you want to play, you go to school. Alongside training we add tutoring, work on responsibility and conversations about what comes next.
Building facilities
The pitch in Krásné Březno came directly out of the team’s initiative. Where there is no space, we try to create it.
International programmes
The development programme of the Norwegian organisation MOT, tournaments abroad, exchange of experience with similar projects in Europe.
02A case from practice
From a concrete yard
to the national team
The key is the cooperation with the top-tier futsal club FC Rapid Ústí nad Labem, a partner of Mongaguá practically from the beginning.
The clearest example is Daniel Hajaš. From the Mongaguá team he made it to the under-19 futsal national team and into the Rapid “A” squad.
This is not the exception that proves the rule. It is proof that the route exists — and there are others in the teams who can take it.
03Where we work
Eighteen teams,
one model
There are 18 teams across the country and 400+ children involved. Below are all the locations together with the people who run them.
| Location | Person in charge | Children |
|---|---|---|
| Ústí nad Labem founding | Lukáš Pulko, Matěj Čapek | 60 |
| Líšťany | Lukáš Džurban, Richard Feri | 40 |
| Ostrava | Jaroslav Horváth, Alexandr Horváth, Michal Nesnadný | 30 |
| Mladá Boleslav | Juraj Hreha, Lukáš Jano | 30 |
| Česká Lípa | Miroslav Jano, Jakub Procházka | 25 |
| Jihlava | Jakub Báťa | 25 |
| Děčín | Patrik Herák, Ďula Horváth | 25 |
| Pardubice | Andrej Horváth, Ludvík Gašpar | 20 |
| Vysoké Veselí | Marek Berko | 20 |
| Velké Hamry | Petr Lavička | 20 |
| Praha | Pavel Bukáček, Kristian Oláh | 20 |
| Jablonec nad Nisou | Jaroslav Sivák | 20 |
| Plzeň | Martin Červeňák, Pavel Hlavanič | 15 |
| Frýdlant | Honza Ferenc | 15 |
| Litomyšl | Robert Oláh | 15 |
| Janov | Petr Globočník | 15 |
| Kopidlno | Marek Berko | 15 |
| Praha — second team | Simona Milková |
Do you want Mongaguá in your town?
The model is available. You need a pitch, one person and our help getting started.