Partidí - CDI

Partidí is a tool which uses soccer as a means for education.

"Partidí creates a space that allows children to cohabit, collaborate and manage their relationships with others.

We play 21ST Century Soccer In 2002, we developed the Project “Education through Sports” at CDI, which was based on using soccer as a tool for educating boys and girls aged between 4 and 12.

This experience allowed us to reflect on and conclude that soccer, in Paraguay and the world, is an integral pedagogic medium. It is low-cost, unifying and easy to use for educating boys, girls and young adults of every socio-economic background.

With this knowledge, we began to develop the Project “PARTIDI” at CDI, as a transforming educational tool that gives boys, girls, teenagers and young adults the opportunity to take part of a learning space; centered in the development of skills that allows the individual to think, value, cohabit and work with others.

• We have worked with 3,500 boys, girls and young adults from vulnerable areas in the country, within an age span of 6 and 18 years old.

• The Paraguayan Partidí Network currently includes 31 communities from across the country.

• Around 1,238 families from vulnerable areas across the country have become involved in Partidi’s different community projects.

• 2,518 boys, girls and young adults have come to know new realities thanks to the Partidí Leagues, traveling to different locations in the country to play soccer and participate in important community experiences.

• Partidi’s Creating Leaders Program promoted the skill-building of more than 60 community leaders in their original towns.

• To date, more than 40 young Paraguayans have participated in the South American Street Soccer Matches, sponsored by Partidí.

• We are founders of the Street Soccer Movement, together with 10 Latin American organizations.

Local coordinators and instructors are key actors in Partidi’s program management within communities. They are trained in specific skill-building workshops, within the framework of a reflexion and follow-up process for program implementation.

The skill-building process includes:
Theory and concepts
Field training
Theory and Practice Synthesis

Partidí’s methodology can be developed at any club, school, neighborhood or community. Participation is key, and everyone has a defined role to play. The players, the sports mediator, who is guiding the participants at all times; without acting as a referee, but more like an educator and local coordinator, who leads the project in his/her community.

The rules are defined by the players themselves who, upon reflecting for a bit, interpret the new logic of soccer proposed by Partidí. From a democratic vision, finding solutions to conflicts and to projects that are proposed, based on agreements and evaluations. This implementation is called: the three halves methodology.

Both boys and girls play

The team that scores the most goals is not the winner

“Values” such as respect, teamwork, and cooperation, among others, add points.

Enjoying the game is prioritized over competing.

The players themselves establish the rules, guided by a Sports Mediator.

There is no referee.

Once the match has ended, there is a “third half”, during which players evaluate each other.

Partidí uses soccer to encourage boys, girls and young adults to talk about and reflect on their local context, on important issues such as:

• Community leadership

• Gender equality and equal opportunity

• Health, caring for the body and preventing addictions

• Respecting and caring for the environment

• Life and work skills

• Ties, affection, emotions, being and doing

How we interact?

Partidí promotes spaces where boys, girls, teenagers and young adults can exchange, through the Paraguayan Partidí Network, and where more than 15 communities in the country are currently involved.

South American Street Soccer Network (RSFC)

In 2005, CDI, together with the organizations Deporte y Vida de Perú and Defensores del Chaco de Argentina founded the South American Street Soccer Network; signing up more than 50.000 boys, girls and young adults from South America.

International Network for Learning and Knowledge

Partidí, together with Kickfair from Alemania, Chigol from Chile, Joven Cidadão from Brasil and CreArte from Argentina created the International Network for Learning and Knowledge.

Partidí Exchange- Kickfair from Alemania

Partidí, together with Kickfair from Alemania, Chigol from Chile, Joven Cidadão from Brasil and CreArte from Argentina created the International Network for Learning and Knowledge.

Street Soccer Movement (MFC)

This Network has added more than 22 organizations from 9 South American countries that use the Street Football methodology to achieve social development and citizen construction objectives; involving more than 50,000 children and young people in South America. The RSFC has held 5 South American meetings, 3 international conferences and has inspired the creation of a Training School for Social Leaders and the current Street Soccer Movement at the regional level.