Soccer is for everyone and that's what organizers of the second annual PlayLA Adaptive Sports Blind Soccer Experience wants people to know. About 60 blind or visually impaired LAUSD students from ten different schools got to learn about the Paralympic sport and meet members of the USA Blind Soccer National Team.
Dozens of LAUSD students learned blind soccer from members of the first US Blind Soccer National Team.Soccer is for everyone and that's what organizers of the second annual PlayLA Adaptive Sports Blind Soccer Experience wants people to know.
"They're doing dribbling and they're getting a chance to understand where the ball is at their feet," said Molly Quinn, the CEO of the United States Association of Blind Athletes. "And then the most exciting part that everybody loves is that they do penalty kicks." "It's incredibly exciting and it just speaks to what incredible talent there is in this group," said Will Kuntz, the general manager for the Los Angeles Galaxy, one of the hosts and organizers of the event. "I've watched them kick around a little bit before and they have incredible form, a lot of them better than me. So, it's exciting."
"So far, it's just the same, but the dribble, you can't like kick the ball really far. You have to keep it, like, inches in front of you," said Velasco, a junior at Narbonne High School. "As you know in regular soccer, you just kick it and like chase the ball."
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