{"id":1918,"date":"2022-10-26T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2023-03-17T15:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T15:05:44","slug":"uae-blog-the-ispah-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/blog\/2022\/10\/26\/uae-blog-the-ispah-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Blog: The ISPAH Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"gmail_default\">A<\/span>\u00a0Spirit of Football Team were invited to the UAE to run a week of workshops at the Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) Congress, 23rd -26th October 2022 in Abu Dhabi.<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0<\/span>The ISPAH Congress is the largest physical activity and health Congress in the world and ISPAH is widely recognized as the leading global society of researchers and practitioners focused on promoting physical activity across the life course.<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0<\/span>The workshops\u00a0<span class=\"gmail_default\">at the conference focused on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"gmail_default\">FairPlay as a tool to encourage more people to play football and this to promote physical activity.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"gmail_default\">Gender Equality: by giving young women (mostly female university students) the chance to play football for the first time in their lives.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"gmail_default\">Sustainability: a pledge wall was set-up and pledges were collected by participants on The Wall as well as signatures on The Ball.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span class=\"gmail_default\">An overarching aim of the project was to build partnerships and connections for Spirit of Football and partners to be able to present The Ball &#8220;One Ball, One World&#8221; project&#8217;s learnings at COP-28 in Dubai in November 2023.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1919\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/blog\/2022\/10\/26\/uae-blog-the-ispah-ball\/theballinuae\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"TheBallinUAE\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Ball in UAE&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1919 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-427x320.jpg 427w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-618x464.jpg 618w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/TheBallinUAE-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Spirit of Football Team were invited to the UAE to run a week of workshops at the Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) Congress in Abu Dhabi. 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