Once in a lifetime opportunity - for our kids in Pleasant Grove!
Pleasant Grove tends to be a bit invisible to greater Dallas. It’s just not seen.
Well, this summer — it’ll damn well get seen!
The Pleasant Grove community will be seen at this summer’s World Cup, an event watched literally by billions around the world. How cool is that!?
Young people from the Pleasant Grove community will experience a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity this summer as selected students walk onto the field during matches at FIFA World Cup 26™.
One of the good kids from our PG Soccer & Sports clinics in February. That’s the shirt from this particular series of clinics; we were telling them to “Dream Big,” they just didn’t know at the time how big their dream could be — to walk out on the field at a World Cup!
Pleasant Grove Soccer & Sports announced this week that 38 participating students, from eight elementary schools within the community, were identified through a free series of February soccer clinics held at W.W. Samuell High School. Students were recognized and selected for their soccer participation, but also for their citizenship, engagement with coaches, consistency in attendance and involvement in the nutrition and wellness programming connected to the clinics.
PG Soccer & Sports is one of three Dallas nonprofits selected to participate, along with Puede Network from Oak Cliff and Jubilee Park and Community Center near Fair Park. The selected students will walk onto the field alongside some of the world’s top soccer players during FIFA World Cup matches hosted this summer in North Texas.
This is about much more than soccer. Opportunities like this are generally more accessible to well-connected communities and organizations. We are so proud that young people from working class Pleasant Grove, an area often overlooked in Dallas, will have the chance to stand on the World Cup stage. It’s so cool that the Pleasant Grove community is being seen!”
The opportunity is part of a broader youth initiative supported by Quaker Oats Company and Common Goal, connecting young people from communities across the United States to FIFA World Cup 26™ experiences.