Brazil: Volunteer Football Coaching in Latin America

Brazil: Volunteer Football Coaching Work Experience Placements

There can be no better place to volunteer on a football placement than Brazil - winners of the football world cup a record five times and known by locals simply as ‘the football country’.

Many Brazilian children live for football and it is by far the favourite pastime of youngsters found playing in the streets. For some talented children football offers an escape from poverty, keeping them away from entering gangs or getting involved in drugs, and giving them opportunities to develop pride and team skills, keeping them fit and healthy. Most of all it gives the children a chance to socialise and have some fun!

Coach Football to Children with Projects Abroad

Volunteers working at our football projects in Brazil work at local schools or football academies, or both. Both projects are based in Niteroi, just across the bay from Rio de Janeiro.

Volunteers teaching football at a local school will offer much needed help and become involved in teaching a variety of classes and age groups. Whether you are taking your own class or providing support to the local teacher, your help will be much appreciated by both the teachers and the students. Most children, boys and girls, have a great enthusiasm and an unlimited appetite for sport, especially when it is made accesible and fun. Volunteers teaching football in schools also have the opportunity to teach other types of sport depending on your interests. 

Volunteers choosing to work at the football academy help coach football to a number of different age groups – aged 10 to 12’s, under 14’s and under 17’s. The players have a variety of different abilities, providing you - the volunteer, with a large amount of diversity to your work. You could spend a few hours per day on advanced football skills with older children, and then be monitoring small team games for younger students.

Our football placements in Brazil provide an opportunity for young players to develop their basic skills and techniques with the hope that some may achieve the phenomenal success of Brazilian stars like Pele, Ronaldinho or Kaka!

Your Role Volunteering Abroad on a Football Project in Brazil

During your time as a sports volunteer in Brazil you will be responsible for the development of young footballers’ basic skills and techniques. You will help co-ordinate and plan coaching sessions to develop skills such as ball control, accurate passing, and keeping possession. Furthermore you will help your supervisor to referee games.

When you get to Brazil, you will be introduced to the students and your supervisor. Don’t worry if you have little or no coaching experience; the staff here are dedicated to their programmes and very open to volunteers, so will help you in anyway they can. As a foreigner, your very presence will help to make each sports lesson or training session fun – which is vital to maintaining the interest and enthusiasm of the children.