About 10 years ago Jon Thompson who had traveled to Nicaragua as a tourist and Alejandro Noguera, who had recently retired from professional baseball in Nicaragua, came together around the vision of organized leagues in soccer, baseball, and basketball for young people in San Juan del Sur, who otherwise did not have much to do with their free time.
Girls soccer clinic at the Sports Park
Working with the municipal government and local sports and culture association, Jon and Alejandro secured a 10 year, $1 lease on a dilapidated basketball court that had once been the tennis court for Nicaragua’s dictator, Samoza. Working together with local athletes, with major support from international donors, the enthusiastic group remodeled the court, adding cement bleachers, an entrance gate, new lightings, new basketball and soccer goals, and a new cement playing surface. The Sports Park was born!
Over the last 10 years an entire generation of children in San Juan del Sur (population 10,000+) has grown up with the chance to play organized soccer, basketball and baseball, a chance that few of their peers have around the country.
Alejandro throws the first pitch of the season.
Your donation today will help replicate the success story of sports in San Juan del Sur in a rural community in the northern highlands called Los Robles (population 2,000+). Comunidad Connect has been working on supporting healthcare inthis community since 2012. Exercise is an imperative component for preventative healthcare. Organized sports programming would provide this opportunity for the young people of Los Robles.