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Street soccer launches
The Irvine Herald
|May 07, 2025
A former homeless man has launched a new football programme for people with mental health and addiction issues events in North Ayrshire and hopes to introduce them soon in Irvine.
A Street Soccer Drop-in is being held at Winton Park, Ardrossan started on Wednesday, April 16 and runs every Wednesday each week, at 10.30am.
Organiser Gordon Nisbet said on the unique class:"I grew up in Irvine, went through mental health issues and came across a football programme in 2011 called Football For You after I had been homeless for a year.
This story is from the May 07, 2025 edition of The Irvine Herald.
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