Designed to make football more accessible to youngsters by incorporating football activities into the education system, Football For Schools aims to promote the development and empowerment of close to 700 million children around the world. That represents a vast undertaking, but F4S spares no effort in its work. In fact, this year the programme was able to pride itself on expanding its reach to every continent. To date, 32 of FIFA's 211 member associations have successfully implemented Football For Schools. Until recently, Oceania remained beyond its scope, but that all changed in October, when FIFA Legend Yakubu Ayegbeni was on hand in Polynesia to witness the programme's local launch. "FIFA has been developing Football For Schools for almost two years, but unfortunately, due to the pandemic, it was only able to resume its activities towards the end of 2021," explained FIFA's Football For Schools consultant, Antonio Buenano Sanchez, during the event. "Tonga was the first member association in the Pacific region to implement the programme."