Social inclusion through motor activity and sport.

It is now a consolidated opinion that Sport represents a universal phenomenon that has the advantage ofbeing able to be transmitted and taught in ways that transcend cultural barriers. For this reason, sport isincreasingly used in situations of social hardship to improve the inclusion and integration of those subjectswho would otherwise be excluded due to their linguistic, cultural, economic or social conditions. One of themost interesting fields of application in this sense is that linked to Motor Activity projects aimed at migrantsand asylum seekers, and among these projects developed by the Sports Federations of the States of theEuropean Union, those developed through the game of football manage to generate significant involvementand results. According to the data provided by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the RETE! Project,developed by the Youth and School Sector and aimed at migrant minors and asylum seekers, has seen thenumbers relating to participants and reception centres involved almost tripled in the 5 years. life of the project.The trend has not decreased even with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, a sign that Motor Activity isan important and performing tool in the process of inclusion of individuals in distress.