Dany Khoshaba's journey to Germany taught him that football unites the world.

Four days a week, Dany Khoshaba pulls on the green and white training gear and makes his way into the wohninvest WESERSTADION, armed with a bag of footballs, bibs and a whole host of training equipment – everything he needs for the SPIELRAUM programme and football school. The walk up into the stadium has become routine for the Syrian, but when he, his wife and his children came to Germany almost seven years ago, he’d never heard of Werder Bremen. 

"Someone I knew who was a coach at Werder told me about their social events and invited me to take my son to a SPIELRAUM training session," said the 40-year-old, looking back at his first ever experience of the club. After that, Dany’s son returned on a weekly basis, not without his father of course, who, just like his son, cannot live without football and watched on from the sidelines every week.  

Over the years, the weekly support he showed for his son became a daily task. When Khoshoba enters the family and children centre in Tenever, he’s in his element. When he asks his young players, whom he of course knows by name: "Who wants another match?" he always gets a resounding ‘yes!’ The variety of group activities rarely leave children disappointed. Dany Khoshoba is always happy to welcome new children into the group as well: "It’s just my dream job – working with the kids is what I enjoy the most."

SV Werder Bremen’s corporate social responsibility work is done with the support of our CSR partners. For several years, they have supported various projects and programs under the banner of WERDER-BEWEGT-LEBENSLANG, and are a valuable partner in the development of Werder’s social and community engagement efforts.