00:01On a dusty field in Kano, coach Hida Gadar is doing more than training football.
00:07At Breakthrough Soccer Academy, she's helping young people stay off drugs through sport, discipline, education and job support.
00:19It's not just a football academy. We are here to build something different, to create a better life for each
00:28and every one of our players.
00:29So yeah, our players are much now, they're almost 63, but we take good care of each and every one
00:35of them.
00:36And another big dream is to help them achieve their dreams in playing football, which is also my dream.
00:43So my dream is to see one of my players playing abroad.
00:47In Kano, youth unemployment is rising. 12.5% are out of school, work or training.
00:54Players say coach Hida has given them a lifeline.
01:05She encourages us, aside from football, she makes sure we go to school and even helps us get jobs in
01:10a family owned factory.
01:12In football, everything happens by God's grace.
01:15We pray and we train to achieve our biggest dream, to join a foreign club in Europe or elsewhere,
01:20for playing for the chance to go abroad.
01:23She does everything for us.
01:30Kano, Northern Nigeria's largest city has one of the country's highest drug use rates, according to authorities.
01:38Your progress is my progress.
01:41So we help tackling the problem of drug abuse and even stuff that are related to that by playing football
01:49itself.
01:50So playing football itself helps these players avoid all of this, stay away of this, so they don't go together.
01:58Drug abuse, playing football, don't go together.
02:02So it's either you do this or that.
02:05Coach Hida's playing career ended at 18 after injuries, but she turned that setback into purpose, growing her academy from
02:12six players to 63.
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