Johan Cruyff Foundation - Creating Space for children.
The Johan Cruyff Foundation supports and develops sports activities for children all over the world. We focus on children in need. Through sports projects for children with a disability and projects like the Cruyff Courts and Schoolyard14 we create space for these children.
Space to grow. Space to make friends. Space to improve physical and mental health.
Space to become who you are.
If you can do something for someone else, you should
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Johan Cruyff
Ronald Koeman
Pep Guardiola
Esther Vergeer
Gordon Reid
Soufiane Touzani
Carles Puyol
Marlou van Rhijn
Frank Rijkaard
Wesley Sneijder
Xavi Hernández
Cooking for Charity was a huge success!
What a special night we had yesterday! During the eleventh edition of the Dutch fundraising event Cooking for Charity we raised more than €250.000 to create space for children with a disability! The special theme of the evening was wheelchair tennis.
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Cruyff Court Neale Cooper
Today we opened the second Cruyff Court in Aberdeen: Cruyff Court Neale Cooper! A safe space for the children in Tullos, named after the legend Neale Cooper, who passed away in 2018. During the festive opening children from the community played with several Scottish heroes like Jim Leighton, Steve Archibald en Archie Knox.
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1 million for project for refugee children on Lesbos and Samos
Johan Cruyff always paid attention to children in need. Before his passing, he expressed his wish to do something for the refugee children. And that's going to happen, as we received a special funding of the Dutch Postcode Lottery!
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Cruyff Court
Special Cruyff Court
Schoolyard 14