On the premises of the Mina San Julián, Chihuahua, unit of Fresnillo PLC, took out the league, “United in the Positive”, in which the community of La Lagunita -Guanaceví, Durango - received to the community of “Yerbitas” in the first league interstate Football this year 2025. The event brought together more than 100 people from both communities among children, girls, mothers, parents, and teachers. 

Five months ago that César Omar Galván, professor of Football, is in charge of implementing the Program “Barrios” in La Lagunita, where I face different challenges, so the League this weekend was a very special meaning. Acknowledge that they started from scratch, from teaching children and girls to learn, to respect the rules and to control their impulses. Many matches were suspended by the behavior during the matches, but as you were making the sessions sociodeportivas, they learned to control their emotions and for a time the games can be completed:  

There have been many advances since the game organized, recognized, respect others and begin to see the positive things and to remove the stigma of what they say of The Sierra demostrándoosla that there are good players and players, good people, and they can advance in many aspects of transforming your reality through the sport.

Says the prof César Omar

The program also involved the mothers of the community through the ‘Workshops Positive Parenting’, who have already made the request to have two sessions per week. 

The program has been very positive, there have been some changes in children especially in coexistence, and had groups apart, and now we get to see more inclusion. In the workshops of positive parenting I learned to be more tolerant, generate trust my son and take care of it without being so protective. We served a lot of the mothers of the community to share between us. 

comments Magaly Bridges, mother of a beneficiary. 

This program is made possible thanks to the support of Fresnillo plc and Minera San Julián, who seeks to be a real contribution in the development of the communities of which they are part. To Fernando Rodriguez, superintendent of community development Minera San Julián, the Football program has been relevant since its implementation: 

The methodology applied from the social, sporting, and the workshops of positive parenting, help us to strengthen the social fabric of the community. As part of our social responsibility and our policies, we have a very entrenched our values and I think that arrive with More Soccer to communities, and go hand in hand, it is a reflection of that.” 

Martin Castillo, general manager of Minera San Julián, was tasked to give the welcome to the communities at the start of the league, and he also stressed the link that has been generated in these months:

The coexistence of us with them and make a link with the communities to which we belong is very important. There has been a very good turnout, good progress and it is very important to continue to promote the sport in our boys and girls to integrate favorably to the society of which we are part. 

For the implementation of the program was essential to the aid of the teacher Maria de Jesus Esparza Mota the primary Benito Juárez de La Lagunita and was to witness the positive change that have had children in the community:

It has made me very positive the arrival of Football to the community, has helped me a lot to school coexistence and to the presence of children in the classroom. It has changed the attitude of them in class and all the values they are promoting the teachers, has helped me a lot. They are excellent professionals, they have very good layout and great deal with children. In a first moment I thought it was just play, but they instilled values with different themes”. 

Fütbol Mexico's Most grateful to all those who have facilitated our presence in The Lagunita and have facilitated us to make our sessions sociodeportivas. We also thank the trust of Fresnillo PLC and the drive of San Julíán for believing in our methodology and to trust in that the sport can transform reality.