Even top professional athletes have to learn how to deal with failures and disappointment.
Responding to failure with ASVEL and One Team
One Team News
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LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne’s One Team program is teaching a group of young people that the only way to respond to setbacks is by working even harder and never giving up.
ASVEL has been working with SESSAD (Service Education Social Soin A Domicile), an organization that takes cares of young people with intellectual disabilities by helping them to integrate through sport, accompanying them in their daily lives and assisting their parents.
Many of the sessions were attended by One Team Ambassador Paul Lacombe and his ASVEL teammate Ismael Bako also joined. Their team talks about how to succeed in life made a major impression on the group.
The club’s One Team Coach Eva Bergeon explains: “We have a lot of young people who struggle with failure management. But when Paul came to see the group he explained to them: ‘Yesterday I lost a game. I was disappointed but now I’m going to get back to work’. The message was so good, they really got it. And since then one youngster always tells me during practise: ‘Paul told me to persevere so I’m going to keep working’.”
One Team, supported by Turkish Airlines as the One Team Founding Patron and with the collaboration of Special Olympics as Proud Partner, uses basketball to achieve meaningful social impact in our communities across Europe and is supported by every club in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and 7DAYS EuroCup.
Since its founding in 2012, the One Team program has already helped more than 22,000 participants through its various team-focused projects.