Under 14's Dynamic Stars Academy, pre-match warm up

The under-14 boys team warm up with a quick song and shuffle before a match against the Chainda Bombers, a team they hadn't ever beaten before. The red shirts and shorts, a donation by the Oadby Owls Football Club in Leicester, were the first full kit the Zambian lads had ever worn (socks were donated too but the chronic shortage of footwear to go with them is an issue). They have had shirts before but never in sizes that fitted them and as with all over the world, it's the bigger boys that usually get first refusal. I watched and laughed at a lot of 17 year old's trying, sort of like Cinderella's kid sisters but without the ugliness, to squeeze without success, into these jerseys. They won the game 4-1 and the shirts helped - you could see it in their faces as they passed the ball around. Little things like this make a massive difference to kids lives over there - it makes their day!