FOOTBALL INTEGRADO: DA TEORIA À PRÁTICA INCLUSIVA

This article is focused on special Pedagogy as an educational science, aimed at developing inclusive paths and processes for people with special educational needs. It focuses on every formal, informal and non formal learning moment, addressing every age, in order to achieve a fairer world, with a more inclusive participation. Sport represents one of those moments, providing that it is played within an educational project specifically designed to help people grow. The first part of this work introduces the notion of integrated Football as an example of inclusive and accessible sport architecture. It was created in the Italian context, thanks to the Italian school integration path, within the Erasmus Project+Sport called Integrated Football: the new frontiers of sport for all. The article will present the origins, the development and the evolution of this project, thus focusing on specific paradigms such as diversity, accessibility and participation. With this background, the second part will analyse videos concerning 15 matches of the Integrated Football Tournament played in Sardinia (in 2017-2018). This analysis shows how the participation of players number 2 (athletes with more difficulties) is similar to the participation of players number 5 (more skilled athletes), both in terms of goals and shots. This shows how integrated Football could be a real opportunity of inclusion and improvement for everybody.