Norwich City join young people to stand together against racism | EFL in the Community
► Subscribe to Sky Sports Football: http://bit.ly/SSFootballSub ► Watch Sky Sports with NOW: https://bit.ly/NOWFootballYT Norwich City players Caleb Ansen & Jovon Makama visit St Michael's Junior School to join pupils for a special assembly promoting equality, inclusion and respect. Through powerful poetry and important conversations, young people share their messages about tackling discrimination as part of the EFL's Together Against Racism campaign. football efl eflchampionship ► EFL highlights: https://bit.ly/EFLHighlights2627 ► EFL Cup highlights: https://bit.ly/CarabaoCupHL ► SPFL highlights: https://bit.ly/SPFLHighlights2627 ► Bundesliga highlights: https://bit.ly/BundesligaHighlights2627 ► Buy this season’s shirts: https://bit.ly/SkySportsShop More from Sky Sports on YouTube: ► Sky Sports: http://bit.ly/SkySportsSub ► Sky Sports Boxing: http://bit.ly/SSBoxingSub ► Sky Sports Cricket: http://bit.ly/SubscribeSkyCricket ► Sky Sports Darts: https://bit.ly/SubSkySportsDarts ► Sky Sports F1: http://bit.ly/SubscribeSkyF1 ► Sky Sports Golf: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSkySportsGolf ► Sky Sports News: http://bit.ly/SkySportsNewsSub ► Sky Sports Premier League: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSkySportsPL ► Sky Sports Retro: http://bit.ly/SkySportsRetroSub ► Sky Sports WSL: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSkySportsWSL ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SkySportsFootball ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skysportsfootball ► TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skysportsfootball / https://www.tiktok.com/@skysportswsl ► X: https://x.com/SkyFootball / https://x.com/SkySportsWSL ► Website: https://www.skysports.com ► To enquire about licensing Sky Sports content, you can find out more here: https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/news/31754/11434270/license-sky-sports-footage
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Good afternoon everyone. >> Good afternoon. >> Thank you. How's it support Norwich City? Come on. There's got to be more than that. There's got to be more than that. Well, hopefully we'll have more by the end of this assembly. >> How does the club work together with the EFL to support the Together Against Racism campaign? >> Uh so we go out and do sessions like this. Football is important because like everybody watches it. Um the fact that it's like the biggest sport in the world, you can just put football down and everybody can just play no matter what it is, girls or boys, um whatever color, everybody can just put football and play. So having players coming in, um and let get them to do that, it's great. >> Should we make the afternoon a little bit more exciting and more engaging? >> No, no, I'm not feeling it. Should we make it a bit more exciting, engaging? >> Okay. Let's go. >> So, first want to introduce you to Jovon McCarma and Caleb McKay who come here today specifically to say hello to you. Okay. How you guys been? All right. >> Yeah. All good. >> What's been happening today? Been training. >> Yeah, we had training this morning. So, we've been in working hard. >> How you feeling about the game on Saturday? >> Yeah, really looking forward to it. We've um been working hard during international break. So yeah, we're looking forward to the game. Hopefully get the win. >> Nor City fans, we going to win on Saturday. >> Are we going to win on Saturday? >> Okay, so the reason obviously we brought Jovon and Caleb into your school is about the EFL Together against racism campaign and um I know some of you have got some questions that you would like to ask the lads. Okay, >> Ollie, who's your idol like right now? >> I like Dona. He's a keeper I look up to. I like his style. So that's my idol at the moment. >> I'd say Erling Harland. You know, he's a very big striker. Um and yeah, I like to try and base my play style off him. >> Why is it important that everyone feels included in football? >> I think just so you're in a good environment and you feel comfortable around your teammates. For example, at Norwich, like everyone makes you feel very included. So, I've only just come up to the first team and they've made me feel very very welcome and every day when I step on the pitch, I feel like I'm in an environment where I can push myself the hardest. That's why it's important to feel included. >> Yeah, I think exactly what Caleb said. Um, you know, just like this school, there's a lot of uh people from all sorts of different backgrounds and like you said, in the team there's players that come from all over the world and we're all, you know, part of the same team. So, we have to come together and you know, we're all we're all human being and yeah, we we love playing football together and I'm sure you guys all love coming to school. We're seeing each other every day. So, yeah. >> Great. That's a great question again. Well done. >> Um, Chatam, >> what should you do if you see someone being treated unfairly? >> Report it to the to the right people. But first, like for example, in a football environment, like I'm comfortable enough to tell whoever the person treating the other person unfairly. I I'll give them a heads up like why are you doing that? Stop doing that. And then if it escalates, then you tell the people that you need to. So your teachers, um staff, all all the all the lot. So you tell them and then report and hopefully the issue gets solved. Yeah, it's just about reporting it to somebody who can, you know, act act upon it and make sure that that behavior doesn't doesn't keep on happening. >> Naomi, >> why is it good that everyone is different? >> Great question. >> It's good cuz everyone has different different strengths strengths and weaknesses. Like I might be not so good at something, but I can learn off someone else that they're good at that. So you can't just have like pundit of yourself everywhere. Like, so it's just good to learn from other people. >> Yeah, I think if there was 24 of me in a room, you know, it'd be I'd get pretty bored pretty quick. So, um, >> very quick. >> But yeah, it's nice to spend time with other people that are also from different upbringings than yourself. >> So, uh, we got Rebecca. >> How can you make sure you are good friends and no one feels left out? Every player will tell you that they've had fallouts with other players. And sometimes in life, you just have to put things behind you and focus on what's important. And what's important for us as footballers is the match days and making sure we get the wins and and doing the best that we can through the season. So, so yeah, we have to stick together and it's just about unity as a as a team. >> For example, in a school environment, make sure you treat everyone how you want to be treated. So, don't be mean to people. And let's say you're on the playground and you see someone just alone. They've got no one to play with, invite them. Be nice, be kind, and then you you stay you make friends like that and then you have even more fun together. So just make sure you're you're a good person. >> Um Lucas, >> uh what makes a great teammate? >> Be very welcoming, but I think they need to have a balance where when you're doing something wrong, they're able to tell you like like to sort it out. because if they if they're always just nice to you, you start becoming a bit delusional and like you think you're doing everything right, but you need to have the bad bits where they tell you like sort it out and that. So, um that's what makes a good teammate to me. >> You know, at the end of the day, you're you're you're not to be getting in trouble all the time and things. So, it's about being around the right people that are going to make you a better person as well. And you know, the more people you have around you like that through your life, you'll hopefully um be successful and get far in life. >> How does having different people in a team make it stronger? >> Well, I think for example, myself, I play striker and if I was to put on goalkeeper gloves and do Caleb's job, I'd be very bad at it. So, you know, would concede a lot of goals. Um, >> yeah, you gain different strengths from from different cultures, from different different experiences and that. So, not everyone's used to like the same style of football, but once you get that that bond together, then you get the best out of the team. >> Has someone on your team ever helped you when you needed it? And what did they do? >> Every every day for me personally, like um if I make a mistake, cuz mistakes are going to happen, they they they just give me advice straight away on what I could have done better. just be ready for the next shot because if I'm still moaning about the last mistake then I'm not going to be ready to deal with the next shot. So >> so many players I could name off the top of my head that have helped me um learn because from a young age I've I've came into a first team environment even from my old club. So, you know, it's a it's a very big step up and to have them experienced players around you that, you know, can pass on their knowledge and their experience of the game, it helps you massively. And when you, you know, you start to get hang of it as you get older and you get more experience yourself and all of those things are building blocks to, you know, creating what hopefully is a successful version of yourself. >> Big round of applause for Joe Von and Russian. Well done. You started a journey at Lincoln City, winning young player and looking so gritty. Our stories live. We remember, we celebrate, we rise. >> And neighborly, helpful, compassionate, and generous staffers that spells joyful. >> And sunshine yellow and forest green. The sharpest play I've ever seen. >> Annette set a crowd so loud, a safe, so brave, a team with a gleam. for Black History Month. He's a player we see showing hard work makes our own history. >> We really enjoyed them all. >> They're very good. >> You also sign. >> Yeah. >> There you go. >> You can give me a big smile here. Everyone, >> I didn't expect to come in and and then be so loud, so so excited. Especially at the end, we could barely walk anymore. Norwich is a very big community and you know everyone gets around each other and the support on the match days and things you know this is another way of how we can repay um our gratefulness for that and yeah it's nice to it's nice to do things like this >> real um role models actually for our young people. They were so um eloquent in their discussions and um the fact they were sharing all of their work around teamwork um how to stand up for each other and advocate for one another. I think our children will take a lot of that away and tonight they'll be talking at home all around what they just experienced. >> Did you feel like the most popular man in the room because a few of those homes were just about you? >> Yeah, I know. I did I didn't expect it. Even though the pose wasn't about me, they they were very good. Like I was very >> bit upset about that. Well, I'm a little upset, but it was good. It was good to see that kids are really able to make moments like that. >> There's a lot of negativity in the world, isn't there? But being in rooms like that, does it give you a real sense of positivity for the future? >> Yeah, definitely. You know, I can't remember what I was like when I was that age, but uh yeah, they're definitely all very smart, and it seems like they're all, you know, heading in the right direction.