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Building Social Change Through Football

If you're looking for your contribution to simultaneously impact issues as diverse as sport, gender equality, and sustainable growth, this is it. 

About Us 

The Forca Goa Foundation is an NGO based in Goa that aims to use football to mobilize, empower, and connect communities for a positive development of individuals and our state.

Team Forca Goa is a team of female athletes powered by their passion for football, gender equality and the environment.

Our video campaign for the India leg of the event.

Blogs and Articles 

GGWC interviews Team Forca Goa 

Navhind Times

Herald Goa

About Global Goals World Cup

The Global Goals World Cup events leverage the power of football as a sport to drive awareness around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), and empower young girls and women around the world to take action.

In this tournament where sports meet activism players are more than just athletes or sport fans. The winning team are the team that are both the most sensational and most creative activists and football players combined. In this tournament it is not about being the best team in the world - but being the best team for the world.   

In a fierce competition with over 21 teams, Forca Goa Foundation won the Global Goals World Cup India leg and will now represent India in the Global Goals Activist Trophy in New York (September 2019). A mammoth achievement for our girls! 

About the Fundraiser

Getting to New York comes at a cost and we need your help. 

As a supporter of a GGWCup winning team, you will not only support the team’s travels to New York City, you will ignite the team’s passion for community, network, and fuel their motivation for change.

You will enable a team of girls to see their football dreams to come to life by representing India on a global platform while inspiring a generation of girls to follow suit, and combine the love of football with sustainable development. 

Why should you care?

As of 2017, only 0.93% of the world’s professional footballers are women. For any sphere of human enterprise to have less than 1% of women is alarming. Where do we begin? We can begin here. 

This is what we are all about. You and us together fighting for what’s right through a medium that has time and again proved to be the biggest breaker barriers - football.

We have the opportunity to stand up for all this and more. We have the chance to make India proud and show the world that when we all come together, we can make great things happen.

And for that, we need your help. 

Meet the Team

Team Forca Goa consists of players from the FC Goa women’s team and other talent coming together and making use of the platform provided by the Forca Goa Foundation to make a difference through football. Team Forca Goa is playing for Global Goal 3 Good Health & Well-Being, Global Goal 5 Gender Equality and Global Goal 12 Responsible Consumption & Production

Yadnya - A football coach and a keen advocate of Gender Equality. Yadnya is a role model to the many young girls she coaches.

Joyvi - Joyvi is a student whose passion is football. On the field, she never lets her size be a disadvantage and takes on players twice her size.

Velanie - Velanie is an exceptional footballer and is a living example that hard work and perseverance can help you overcome life’s toughest situations.

Simone - Simone is a makeup artist who loves playing football. She is passionate about making the right choices to help protect the environment. 

Avia - A footballer turned coach. Avia is keen on using football as a tool to teach the children she coaches good values and healthy habits.

Sneha - Sneha is outspoken and honest. She plays to break gender stereotypes and negative social structures.

WE ARE CURRENTLY UNABLE TO ACCEPT FOREIGN DONATIONS, IF YOU ARE BASED OUTSIDE INDIA AND WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT US, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH US AT : info@forcagoa.org 

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