The aim you run for

The Cruyff Legacy 14K, one you also run for someone else.

With your participation you raise money for the Cruyff Foundation. With the money we raise, we let children and young people with a disability play sports. And that's urgently needed! 

Children with disabilities don't get enough movement!

Because of their disabilities, these children often move less every day anyway. Lack of movement and sitting still too much has enormous consequences for their health. Being fitter and stronger helps them function better, despite their (physical) obstacles. 

Why is playing sports difficult when you have a disability?

For children with disabilities, there are many barriers to playing sports or exercise. Personal barriers such as fear, but also environmental factors such as accomodations that are insufficiently adapted, complicated transport options or the lack of expensive sports equipment such as a sports wheelchair (€5.000) or a racerunner (€3.000). They often cannot play sports with peers at the club around the corner. 

The power of sports

Johan Cruijff believed in the endless power of sports on children's development. Besides making children physically better, sport also provides mental fitness. Sports stimulate personal development; for example, it can lead to more self-confidence and better social skills. It teaches children how to get along with each other, provides connection, friends and above all: lot's of fun.

Children with special needs are more likely to be lonely

Because school is often not around the corner, children with disabilities have fewer or no friends in the neighborhood and are more likely to be lonely. Less social interaction results in less training of personal skills. Here, too, sports offer a solution. 

"Not only for their health, but also to meet others and gain self-confidence, sports are important for children with special needs."