{"id":26095,"date":"2018-03-28T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=26095"},"modified":"2018-03-29T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T10:49:08","slug":"walsall-fc-and-british-muslim-youth-group-partner-up-for-a-fun-football-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/walsall-fc-and-british-muslim-youth-group-partner-up-for-a-fun-football-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsall FC and British Muslim Youth Group partner up for a fun football experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0March 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 British Muslim Youth Group (BMYG) hosts a day of football in collaboration with Walsall FC.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Young people will take part in a training session led by professional coaches at Walsall FC before attending the club\u2019s home game against Portsmouth FC<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The day is part of BMYG and Walsall FC\u2019s \u2018Pass It On\u2019 project<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Football will be used to bring young people from around Walsall together<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Saturday 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0March, local youth group BMYG will team up with Walsall FC to bring youngsters to Banks\u2019s Stadium for a day of football and fun.<\/p>\n<p>The attendees, aged between 10 and 17, will take part in a training session led by Walsall\u2019s professional coaches, before receiving a free ticket to watch the Saddlers\u2019 home match against Portsmouth FC.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is part of BMYG and Walsall FC\u2019s joint \u2018Pass It On\u2019 project. The two organisations are working together to pass on opportunities, skills and rewards to the local community, especially those living in close proximity to Walsall FC and the Banks\u2019s Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers at BMYG will also be welcomed by the club on Saturday, rewarding all of the hard work they do for the community of Walsall.<\/p>\n<p>Riz Ahmed, Director at BMYG, said before the event:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFootball is a great way to get the young people of Walsall together, no matter their background, religion or age. Here at BMYG, we are very excited for this Saturday\u2019s activities with Walsall FC and our ongoing partnership with them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThe day will allow our young people to spend the afternoon improving their own football skills and then get to watch Walsall FC in action. Saturday is just the beginning of many exciting events to come, showing young people that Walsall is a great place to live.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 31st\u00a0March 2018\u00a0\u2013 British Muslim Youth Group (BMYG) hosts a day of football in collaboration with Walsall FC. Young people will take part in a training session led by professional coaches at Walsall FC before attending the club\u2019s home game against Portsmouth FC The day is part of BMYG and Walsall FC\u2019s \u2018Pass It On\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53,27],"tags":[945,946,944],"class_list":["post-26095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-latest","category-sport","tag-british-muslim-youth-group","tag-partner-up-for-a-fun-football-experience","tag-walsall-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}