Mexico City's official soccer club for the blind is more than just fun and games — its real goal is inclusion.
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00:00We are in an era where people are not discriminated against because of disability, religion, sex or whatever.
00:26I've had homeopathy since I was about four years old.
00:29At the time, my mom thought that I didn't have a solution.
00:34So, I started doing sports, but I started with people who were adapted to it.
00:40Blind sports.
00:41When I started, I realized that what I had could be corrected with glasses without any problem.
00:46But when I was with them, living together, I realized that it was a good environment,
00:51an environment that filled me, that gratified me.
01:00The goalkeeper is the one who guides the forward or the forwards in the opposite goal so that they can locate themselves,
01:05orient themselves and thus be able to score.
01:07The court is divided into three thirds. It is a court that is round.
01:11It is barred. Why? So that the young players can locate their space.
01:15The ball is a ball that has grooves, a sound ball, so that the players can hear the sound of the ball.
01:22The goalkeeper is the one who guides the forwards in the opposite goal so that they can locate themselves,
01:27orient themselves and thus be able to score.
01:51At the beginning, when you go blind, you don't understand what's going on.
02:00I was very young and I remember that my depression was very strong,
02:04but fortunately, my parents, my brothers, helped me a lot to get out of that depression.
02:11The good thing that disability has brought me is to meet people like me,
02:15who unfortunately lost their sight due to an illness or an accident.
02:20They are in the same situation and here we are doing things that we like.
02:26They feel the same when they play football as I feel when I practice it.
02:32I want everyone to be able to live in the same environment,
02:43to learn from each other and to enjoy a physical activity,
02:50just like you and I can do it.