Nike and Jadon Sancho opened a new pitch for South London's young footballers

A few days after launching the celebratory Black History Month jersey, exclusively worn by Raheem Sterling, Tammy Abraham and Marcus Rashford, Nike collaborated with another young footballer from the English National team to build a soccer pitch in South London. He's the Borussia Dortmund star, Jadon Sancho, protagonist of the opening week of the Kennington playground together with about 200 kids, which will soon become the home ground of the Lambeth Tigers, a football team for young people aged 6 to 18 years. The initiative aims not only to inspire new generations, but also to remove the barriers present in some difficult realities in the suburbs of the Southern side of the English capital and to facilitate access to local football players.

It's not the first time that Nike decides to personally provide for the creation of playgrounds or sports facilities to be shared from the local communities, as happened recently with the Arena Ronaldo, close to the Corinthians stadium. Talking about Jadon Sancho, instead, he's certainly one of the most significant faces of the new generation of English football: he's just 19, he had to emigrate to Germany in order to shine in European football but he does not forget his London roots. Sancho was born in the South of London from parents of Trinidad and Tobago, more or less from the same area of the English capital from which many promising youngsters come: Reiss Nelson, Joe Gomez, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Aaron Wan- Bissaka and Tammy Abraham himself.