With the goal of making football more inclusive, the Starkick program has taken its newly minted players from West Australia's Kimberley to the turf of Perth Stadium.
It is early Saturday morning and hundreds of excited children have taken to Nipper Roe Oval for the week's Auskick games.
But for the past month, another group of footy lovers have started to share the turf — the enthusiastic, energetic and excited children who make up the town's very first Starkick clinic.Starkick is an all abilities football program for 5–17 year olds who, "by circumstance or choice, may be unable or unwilling to participate in a mainstream sporting team".
"It is an amazing opportunity for these kids to get involved in something that they probably, in the past, haven't felt comfortable getting involved with," he said."They're playing on the same oval as 180 other kids of similar age. It's all about fun and laughter.""As he got older and the rules got more complex, he just couldn't follow them," she said.
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