First Team Star Donyell Malen visits the Amputation team

First Team Star Donyell Malen visits the Amputation team

The Eredivisie will go to all professional football organisations this season to highlight social projects, starting at PSV. The PSV amputee football team is, in fact, unique in the Netherlands and received a high visit this week from the top scorer of the Premier League.

In January, amputee football at PSV started with twelve participants but the squad size has increased already a lot. The story of one participant, 10-year-old Giano, was highlighted. He and his mother were interviewed and recordings were made during the training of the PSV Foundation.

During the training, striker Donyell Malen joined. He also made an attempt to play football on crutches, but that turned out to be pretty difficult. Malen said it was a very nice experience, but he had difficulties moving on crutches. He was very impressed by the team and what PSV means to them.

PSV FOUNDATION

 Community Care is one of the club’s five core values. For many years, PSV have organised and guided projects with which it tries to have a positive influence on the present society. The club used to do this under the flag of PSV in the Community. PSV are aware of its special position in the community and realise that it should embrace its social responsibility as one of the biggest football clubs in the Netherlands. The clubs feels honoured and privileged to provide a positive contribution to the community. The (prize-winning) projects carried out by the PSV Foundation include, among other things, PSV United, the Dutch Street Cup, Scoring with Education, PSV OldStars, the annual visit that players pay to the children’s wards in hospitals and Playing for Success.