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City of Liverpool's Social Football scheme
WELL-BEING is generally defined as being in a positive physical, social and mental state. The three are linked and an improvement in one of these areas can make it easier for the other two to follow suit.
At the top level, football is about the physical, mental, and technical qualities of a group working together. The greatest teams in the history of the game possessed some kind of social unity or favourable social dynamic.
The game of football, along with other team sports, is about diverse individual identities becoming part of something bigger once they combine as a whole on the football pitch.
With climate change, commercial overload and endless fixtures, footballers are being pushed to breaking point. It’s time their unions became a more powerful, unified force, writes JAMES NALTON
JAMES NALTON writes how at the heart of the big apple, the beautiful game exists as something more community-oriented, which could benefit hugely under mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
