Our founding principles are designed to utilize the power of sport and work towards creating a safe environment in the Karoo where young boys and girls are forwarded the opportunity to develop essential life skills while showcasing and harnessing their sporting talent – through football.

Our learning methods – through practical coaching, conditioning and video analysis will allow our staff to regularly provide clear and accurate feedback on all the elements associated to the player’s development and performance.

Dream Team emphasis the importance and relevance - striving to continuously develop and enhance our football programme via regular tours, tournaments and partnerships with football clubs, locally and abroad. This to ensure our players and staff are continually exposed to different ideas/concepts that are impacting world football and stay up to date with the latest technological advancements, rules and regulations.

To utilize the power of football and positive community role models to symbolically work towards creating a safe environment in the karoo where young boys and girls are afforded the opportunity and possibilities to develop essential life skills while showcasing and harnessing their sporting talents/gift.

To break the vicious cycle of poverty through football and education while helping to boost cultural exchanges between the different population groups in our area and greater karoo – South Africa.

The focus of Dream Team Football Project places significant emphasis on Academic Schooling of our players while they pursue their sports career.

With these development structures in place we will enable these players to have increased access to opportunities – become ambassadors in their respective communities.

The Dream Team will aim to play attractive, attacking football throughout our different age groups. All age groups will develop a style of play that is always based on possession of the ball and our teams will try to play from the back and through the thirds.

Developing players in a style that makes them competent in managing the ball under pressure.

• Our aim is to produce players that can compete at the highest level.

At all times our teams will play from the back and through the thirds.

Defensively the teams will learn how to press effectively to win the ball back early and have the understanding of how to defend through each third of the pitch with individuals being competent defending in 1v1 situations relevant to their position.

Dream Team Project started in July 2024, after the Youth Championships for U11 & U13 during the June 2024 Youth Month celebrations as a development soccer outreach programme for boys with different backgrounds. Our Project boys ranging from 10 to 14 years old – our latest edition is now the girls 12 – 14 years old of which we currently have 45 boys who have joined the project from Beaufort West and Nelspoort area. Our affiliation with the Beaufort West Local Football Association is critical to our existence – we believe that with our partnership since 2018, it’s possible to develop our stars together on and off the field.

Our Dream Team Football Project will also be based on a co-educational centre for our players and learners from various schools in the community to gain educational support and to be educated by highly qualified teachers from schools in Beaufort West through the support structures.

We offer this centre to all our players and to whoever walks through our doors. At this centre we do all education based work, from Maths, English, Afrikaans to drama, music, arts and crafts – using football as our vehicle.

Our educational Support pillars:

WE CARE MATRIX

At the Education Centre players/participants receive a hot meal to make sure they getting the right vitamins to grow up and be healthy footballers. For some this is their only meal. If anyone has any donations, old teaching aids or things to help equip the centre that would be greatly appreciated. At the homework centre we work hard at improving the lives of our footballers by giving them guidance and a formulated structure to succeed in the field they desire.

SPECIAL COMMENT

• We still in the process - to either engage a school facility to eradicate our facility and host our projects / programmes

• Our set – up with the needed funding be constructed in containers (for time being).

Incopho Yentaba runs a program called the 'Give Hope' just as much as we receive and give back to our learner's we teach them to also give back but to the community in and around Central Karoo – as well as the country.

Our non-profit inherits all projects and programmes from our sister private company Kicking Future Stars that collaborate a lot with other organisations such as Friends of Stars in Their Eyes – Netherlands.

We host Mbekweni Celtics FC from Paarl, 19 – 20 April 2024 in Beaufort West. 

We participate in a series of Matches:

• U11

• U15

• U17

• U19

Our intention is to visit our counterpart club in Paarl 2025.

During the covid period we did a Food Security project – where a badge of vegetables was delivered and distributed in most of the areas in Beaufort West to provide a meal for the community members in that specific areas.

We also started a Boy Child Dignity project that provides school clothing and shoes to vulnerable boys that’s identified in schools. We further collect shoes and soccer boots from all over the country and overseas – Netherlands to distribute amongst football players and the community members at large.

Our future projects:

• Community Gardens

• Rectification of houses in our community, especially houses where young football players at schools or other clubs / organisations resides

• Support to the Eldery People at Old Age Homes and Disable Institutions

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