Skill Up Master Session at Komarock, Kayole Starlets F.C

 #SkillUp2025

#FootballClubs

Football Made Me Series: On and Off the Field.

I was honoured to lead a session at the clubhouse of Kayolet Starlets F.C. in Komarock today. Kayole Starlets participates in the FKF Women National Super League, Kenya's second-tier league.

📌 Skill Up 2025 

Through the IaM a sHERO, She Can initiative, which is run by the Wilsen Initiative (Wi), we hope to train at least 1000 young people in various settings this year. 

In addition to teaching them how to 'learn to learn' intentionally, we also aim to teach young people financial literacy, storytelling techniques, and how to create a more relatable and positive personal brand. 

 

We aim to guide the participants through life transitions, or loops, that will pave the way for a more affluent future.

📌 Main highlight of session with Kayole Starlets F.C 

1. Who am I?

2. What do you want to become in the next 3 years?

4. Who are your friends, and WHY?

5. How long do you intend to play football?

6. What is your next transition outside or within football?

7. The Johari's window (discussion)

8. Personal Branding Vs. Social Media 

📌 Takeaway Exercise for Participants 

Do you want to see progress in 2025? 

1. List 3 people you must follow. 

2. List 3 people you must unfollow. 

3. List 3 people you must contact / connect with.

📌 Call To Support 

Feel free to support our mission so that we can offer pro bono (free) consultancy services, especially targeting women's football teams. 

Apart from encouraging the players to keep working hard, keep praying, wait for their time, and all that, let us also give them valid information on what they must do to achieve their desired goal. 

In my opinion, there's a big gap in Kenyan football in general that I call the dark tunnel of Kenyan football. We need all forms of light to see where we are going before it is too late. 

Thanks, Kayole Starlets, for the invitation, and I  do hope all that we have discussed today will add to the great work you're doing on and off the field. 

📌 Related link

https://wilsenx.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-dark-tunnel-in-kenyan-football.html?m=1

Do More / Be More / Be Different 

Football Made Me Series - Esther Mazira

#Highlights

DID YOU KNOW

There's more that you can do as an ex-footballer apart from being a coach.

There are a range of jobs and career paths available within football, including finance, legal, media, sales and marketing, digital development, event management, player welfare, partnership management, brand management, community partnerships, and journalism.

Here's a quick list to consider:

1. Brand ambassador
2. Fitness instructor
3. Join the media team.
4. Start a business
5. Administration
6. Coaching
7. Officiating/referee
8. Performance analyst.
9. Volunteership

And so on...

Today I want to appreciate my sister and co-founder Esther Mazira of the Wilsen Initiative (Wi), IAM a sHERO #SheCan, for her dedication, commitment, and contribution within the football fraternity after 'hanging the boots'.

On the other hand, I want to thank her former club, @Kayole Starlets, for providing her space for career growth within the club as a performance analyst.

Esther's story of resilience, focus, giving back to the community, passion, professionalism, football, and education, just to mention but a few, is what inspired the IAM a sHERO, She Can program within the umbrella of the Wilsen Initiative (Wi).

As we bid goodbye to the year 2024 and usher in the new year 2025, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported all our calls to action to support the children and youth from underserved communities through using football as a tool to achieve even better impact on and off the field.

Come 2025, we wish to organise workshops for grassroots football clubs, which will later end with the 3rd edition of the Football and Lifeskill event in December 2025.

Relate links 🔗

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📌 Quote;

" One of the failures towards creating a positive ripple effect of change is to start by doubting your own abilities in telling your own story. We all have great stories; if well told, we can accelerate positive change in many spaces. " +throughMylens 📸 Wilson Masaka.

The Seven Super - S' @ Wilsen initiative (Wi) Philosophy.

1. Start Small.
2. Stay focused.
3. Start again.
4. Share ideas.
5. Seek for support.
6. Serve with passion and dedication.
7. Self Made (Self Drive, Self Care, Self Love, Super Star,  and more)

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Mathare North Festive Season Football Tournament 2024 (MNFSFT)

📌  Football Made Me Series ❤️ ⚽ 📸 

We Are Back In Action!

Every festive season we organise different football tournaments for the children, youth, and seniors teams in our community (Mathare North). I pioneered the Mathare North Festive Season Football Tournament featuring senior teams in 2010.

In 2019, due to a lack of resources and overwhelming pressure on and off the field (family, work, community, and generally life), I took a break from organising the senior team tournament and only concentrated on the kids (U10-U15 boys and girls) because, no matter what, they need our unrelenting support, and I'm happy to do all it takes to put a smile on every child playing football in my community. 

Anyway, never say never; I'm back from where I started with the senior teams in 2019 after I was requested by more than 16 teams to help coordinate this year's edition, having understood the need, especially during the festive holiday when the majority of youth are vulnerable to indulging in unwanted activities. 

Main Objective of The Tournament 

This is a showcase of the best talents and teams in Mathare North. The tournament also helps in scouting for players to clubs playing in different leagues within and beyond Mathare North. 

Even though the 16 teams are from the Mathare North zone, players from other neighbourhoods are allowed to play through the invitation of the club. 

Lastly, the tournament also helps us connect more as a community and stay away from unwarranted activities during the festive season.

All the best to all the teams, and you're all welcome to support your team of choice at Drive Inn Primary School starting 21st December to 31st December 2024.

📍 Only the top two teams per group will qualify for the quarterfinals to be played on the 28th of December, 2024. 

📌 Quarter finals 28th December 

📌 SEMIFINALS 29th December.

📌 Finals 31st December 2024

🏟️ Drive INN Primary School ground..

📌 All well wishers are invited to donate football equipment and related materials

Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. +throughMylens ❤️📸

#BeyondFootball #CommunityDevelopmentAndSports

"There are many things that come with football and sports in general only if we open our eyes, hearts, and minds to those seen and unseen possibilities." Wilson Masaka @ Wilsen Initiative 

#BestOfMathareNorthFootball

#MathareNorthNdioMtaa #Grassrootfootball

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