As part of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023, the Goethe-Institut is bringing this opportunity to secondary schools in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia! Students have the unique opportunity to practice both their language skills and their Doppelpass as well as to compete with schools in other countries.
For two days in August 2023, a selected school from Australia will experience Germany's world-class football training without having to leave its school grounds itself. The training sessions in the morning and theoretical workshops in the afternoon are carried out by a cooperation between the Goethe-Institut and the organisation "Auf Ballhöhe" which holds many years of experience in promoting education through sport in the broader sense as well as the exchange and mutual understanding between young people from different parts of the world contributing to international understanding and the promotion of tolerance.
Auf Ballhöhe
If you would like to bring the Goethe World Cup football camp to your school, we look forward to receiving your school's application video until 31 March 2023.
Do you
- offer a German program at your school?
- like to combine football and German?
- promote equality, democracy, human rights and tolerance at your school or would like to focus more on it in the future?
- have space to play football?
- like the idea of in bringing a two-day football camp to your school on August 7 and 8 2023?
- like the idea of your school representing Australia in the Goethe World Cup with a minimum of 12 or maximum of 24 German students from your school and competing with schools from the Philippines, Vietnam and New Zealand?
Application deadline: March 31, 2023
Announcement of the selected school in Australia: April 2023
Football camp at your school: August 7 and August 8, 2023
Announcement of Goethe World Cup winner: August/September 2023
| Time | day 1 |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Praxis 1 Location: outside or inside Focus: language specific football training |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Praxis 2 Location: outside or inside Focus: small forms of play |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Theory 1 Location: class room Focus: football-specific language lessons |
| Time | day 1 |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Praxis 3 Location: outside or inside Focus: language specific football training |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Praxis 2 Location: outside or inside Focus: Goethe World Cup |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Theory 2 Location: class room Focus: football-specific language lessons |
Practice 1 + 3 (language-specific football training)
Forms of exercise and play to learn basic techniques and individual tactical behaviour in connection with the acquisition of football-specific vocabulary. Example: juggling + numbers, dribbling + body parts, passing + colors etc.
Practice 2 (small game forms)
Application of the learned basic techniques and individual tactical behaviors in small game forms
Practice 4 (Goethe World Cup)
Games regarding the Goethe World Cup, example: goal wall shooting, juggling test, dribbling course or similar
Theory 1 + 2 (football-specific language lessons)
Acquisition of football-specific vocabulary and phrases by using a project-accompanying workbook
- Exchange and group work on football-related topics such as cultural differences and similarities, music, fan culture, stadium visit
- Presentation of group work (jersey design, favorite team, etc.)
- Games regarding theoretical content of the Goethe World Cup (theory 2)
- Example: Germany quiz, football memory, FIFA Playstation duel against the coaches or similar