Youth struggle to find sporting venues in Yemen [Archives:2008/1178/Health]

Khaled Al-Hilaly
Yemeni children often end up in their neighborhood's streets to practice sports. Other youth have found city squares and parks to be convenient places for their sporting activities. The most popular is usually football (soccer).

But the reasons behind this speak volumes; young people choose their neighborhood streets for their activities because their areas lack sports clubs, and even those few clubs that do exist lack proper planning and equipment. Football is their choice because it's the only game that doesn't need much special equipment – just a ball and four small rocks to form the goals.

\”I only know football from the way we play it in our school yard