“A visually impaired fan” achieves her dream of scoring a goal!

Murad Al-Masry (Abu Dhabi)
The Spanish club Tenerife carried out a remarkable humanitarian community initiative in the last match it played in 2023 at its stadium, when it fulfilled the dream of a visually impaired fan of scoring a goal amid the joy of the huge crowd.
Fan Yasmina Garcia and her guide dog Kina, who was with her to help make the initiative a success, came between the two halves of the match against Alcorcon in the Spanish Second Division, and the club promoted it on social media, and requested maximum silence from the thousands of fans present in the stands, so that they could determine Better location of the goal on the field, with an assistant making some sound from the goalposts so you can determine the distance and area of ​​the goal.
The Tenerife team, located in the Canary Islands, considered that it always seeks to commit to its role for a more inclusive society, so this initiative came from the latter’s Department of Sports Inclusion and Disability, coinciding with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Artami Rodriguez, coordinator of the Sports Inclusion and Disability Department in Tenerife, said: “We want to raise awareness among the public to show that through small actions like these, we can collaborate in helping to improve the lives of people with disabilities, to make them easier, more accessible and more inclusive, and we have all contributed.” By remaining silent so that the penalty kick taker can know where she is on the field, and so that her guide dog does not feel nervous.”