Photos in this article: David Calle For more than a decade, Dragones de Lavapiés has been creating opportunities for children to play football in one of Madrid's most diverse neighbourhoods. But the struggle to secure safe, accessible spaces has never gone away. Now, with their pitches unavailable, the community has taken its fight to the streets. On Friday, 9 October, Ronda de Valencia, a busy street in central Madrid, became a football pitch. Around 150 children, families

Since joining Common Goal in 2020, Dani Olmo has committed 1% of his salary to support organisations using football to create opportunities for young people and communities — including community-based programmes in Croatia, a country that has played a defining role in his own journey. For Dani Olmo, Croatia has always meant more than football. It is where he spent five formative years of his career after moving to Dinamo Zagreb as a teenager, learning the language, building