The Week Junior - UK (2022-03-19)

19 March 2022 • The Week Junior 9

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THEY SAID IT!

W

hen England’s football manager

Gareth Southgate sat down to

speak to The Week Junior, he’d just

finished teaching a futsal skills

masterclass at Torriano Primary

School in London as part of the

Pokémon Futsal programme.

“They’re a lot noisier than

they were at the start

so I think they’ve

enjoyed their

afternoon,” he said.

Futsal is an

indoor version

of football with

five players on each

team and a smaller ball.

Many of the world’s best

footballers, such as Lionel Messi,

played futsal when they were young.

“My generation didn’t get to play

it,” Southgate said, “but it’s good to

see it’s getting played.” Southgate

has noticed a difference in English

players now that they’re growing up

playing futsal. “We’ve got lots of boys

in the national team now who played

a lot of their football in that sort of

situation... there’s definitely a higher

skill level with young players

coming through now.”

The last time The

Week Junior spoke to

Southgate he said

that the inflatable

unicorns England

players used in

the swimming pool

between matches at

the 2018 World Cup

would be returning for

European Championships. Southgate

said, “If we’ve got enough room in the

luggage compartment then I’m sure

we’ll find a way of getting them in for

the 2022 World Cup.”

W

hen she was a teenager in Jamaica, Magi Sque

spent Saturdays working at a clothes shop. She

was saving up to come to the UK and work as a nurse

but the job gave her a passion for fabrics. “My family

would tell you I have always said, ‘When I can, I’m

going to have my own clothing brand,’” Sque said to

The Guardian newspaper. After five decades of

nursing, Sque followed her dream and launched Magi

Rose a few days before her 72nd birthday. However,

she isn’t out to make money for herself. “There’s

nothing I need,” she says. Sque hopes to give what

money she makes to hospitals in Jamaica. “First I have

to get this business up and running,” she says.

T

hree years ago, campaigner Lowri Moore from

Nottinghamshire, England, wrote to Disney bosses

asking them to create a leading star who wears

glasses, just like her. When Moore’s letter reached

film director Jared Bush, who was at the time working

on Encanto, it was already decided that the main

character in the film was going to wear glasses.

However, Bush waited for the film’s release before

telling Moore. Bush surprised Moore, now aged 12,

by inviting her to the famous BAFTA film awards on

13 March. Encanto won best animated film. “I’m just

so proud of them... they represented everybody so

well,” Moore said. Bush said he was “blown away” to

share the experience with Moore.

Southgate’s

masterclass

“Anything feels

possible and

you feel like

you could jump

through portals

into a whole

different

environment.”

British-Ghanaian artist Larry

Achiampong, who didn’t visit

art galleries when he was

growing up, explains how

playing video games helped

inspire him to take up art.

Gareth

Southgate

Magi Sque

From left: Encanto producer Yvett Merino

with Lowri Moore and Lowri’s mum Cyrilyn.

England’s manager looks ahead to the World Cup.

Southgate with

young footballers.

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Finally fulfilling a dream

Heroes wear glasses too