The Integrated Soccer Academy in Rome has been welcoming young people with autism for ten years. For five of them, now adults, it became possible to take an online course with Fisdir to earn the qualification of assistant coach—with the blessing of Dybala, Roma’s star player. A real job: first a training experience, then employment, achieved after passing an exam.
A podcast has been created about this experience: Call Me Mister. Told in three episodes of about twenty minutes each, it recounts moments of connection and frustration, and their experience as assistant coaches on the field supporting other young people with autism—guided by the expertise of professionals (coaches, sports psychologists, doctors, and a speech therapist) and by their parents.
The authors are Aligi Pontani and Giuseppe Smorto, and the narrator is Daniela Di Giusto.
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