Soccer: a medicine for mental health

The Football World Cup is coming soon! Time to start the soccer countdown! 70 percent Poles believe that football is our national sport. The emotions associated with it have been binding Poles all over the world for generations. Soccer is more than a sport, so every game is a new story whose script is never known.

The last century in Polish club football is a time marked by the great achievements of our clubs in the international arena - with appearances in the finals and semi-finals of the European cups, the birth of extraordinary figures in the world of football with the unforgettable coach Kazimierz Górski, fantastic players such as Lubański, Dejna, Boniek.

For us immigrants, football is a return to youthful passions. Undoubtedly, trainings contribute to establishing new acquaintances and shaping the temperament of players in the new reality.

The Polonia Sports Club has been operating in the Plumpton district for 70 years. It is the most respected and oldest sports club, bringing together football teams of various age categories. During the next podcasts, we will learn about the stories of Polish emigrants for whom football has been, and will be, a way to live a healthy life.

The first podcast on the positive impact of football was launched on Wednesday 26 October and each episode will be released weekly.

Listen to "Soccer, as medicine for mental health" on the SBS Radio App,Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and in all other available applications.