Youth coach sets Leeds to London ball dribble goal

A Leeds football coach is dribbling a ball 200 miles to London-all in the name of youth sport.

- by Dennis Morton

Adel Chermiti, founder of Leeds Hyde Park FC, is embarking on a solo challenge from Elland Road to Wembley Stadium to raise funds for his grassroots football club and its youth programmes. Adel, who has been involved in charity work since moving to England in 2006, founded the nonprofit football club in 2017. He hopes the funds raised will improve facilities and access to sport for children - especially girls - in the Hyde Park and Woodhouse area. He told the Yorkshire Evening Post: "[The goal is] to help more local kids and improve our facilities an