"There are only three Somali football coaches in the whole of Manchester, so the young kids really look up to us," says Sharmarke Yusuf Muffa, 17, a college student from the Somali community in Manchester. "I'm the co-ordinator and I have two core workers who work alongside me."
Sharmarke got into coaching by taking part in Positive Futures, the Home Office and Football Foundation-funded activity programme. He started out organising informal football games for young people in Burnage, the area of Manchester where he lives.
Programme has evolved
Anthony Schiavo, project manager for Manchester Positive Futures, says young people like Sharmarke show how the programme has moved forward.
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