Pedagogy and didactics of motor activity for social intervention

The aim of this article is to identify some of the possible fields of application for the Pedagogy and Didactics of Motor Activity, in order to promote Inclusion and Integration. When we talk about Motor Activity we refer to a discipline that has a universal language among its characteristics, and therefore is particularly recommended in contexts where there is a need to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers. And this is why sports practice is increasingly used in situations of social hardship to improve the inclusion and integration of those subjects who would otherwise be excluded due to their linguistic, cultural, economic or social conditions. From a pedagogical point of view, several authors agree on the need for the discipline to pay attention to new stimuli coming from different disciplinary fields: the methodology used should also be integrated and open to new contents coming from other disciplines. Starting from the assumption that the areas of intervention of Social Pedagogy cannot ignore multidisciplinarity, we aim to underline the importance of the pedagogical-sports intervention in situations of difficult Inclusion and Integration, and to analyze the so-called "Progetto RETE!" (GOALS Project), which the Italian Football Federation has been carrying out since 2015 with unaccompanied minors hosted in the Sprar/Siproimi System (Protection System for beneficiaries of international protection and for unaccompanied foreign minors) facilities, considering it the best practice to be adopted in this case.This project is part of a broader program that the FIGC has conceived and has been carrying out for several years and which has as its ultimate goal the promotion of the values of inclusion and integration through sporting practice.