Arsenal and Washington D.C. community organisation DC SCORES joined forces this week to bring football and creative arts together at George Mason University.
Children from Bancroft Elementary were put through their paces by Jonas Eidevall and our first team coaches, before Lotte Wubben-Moy, Alessia Russo and Emily Fox joined the group for a poetry masterclass.
Founded as a legacy of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, DC SCORES serves 3,000 students – known as poet-athletes – at more than 60 schools, combining football, poetry, and service learning, and will celebrate its 30th anniversary this autumn.
We have collaborated with DC SCORES in our past visits to the US capital, but this was the first opportunity for our women’s team to connect with poet-athletes and celebrate a special connection to our home in north London.