Soccer Waza — Street to Schools Program
Students to players, players to pros
For over thirty years, Soccer Waza has created programs around the world for daycare, preschool, elementary school, middle school, high school, and college, working across public, private, charter, and religious educational institutions, as well as homeschool families and homeschool organizations. Our programs create opportunities before, during and after school, with vacation and school-break camps and year-round learning.
We specialize in creating programs where none exist and bringing them to the students, families, and communities who need them most—including those who cannot afford to participate.
A year-round curriculum
Programming includes intraschool activities within a single school and interschool play between schools. Microcycles, mesocycles and macrocycles connect individual sessions, focused training blocks and the full-year curriculum. School schedules can include Fall, Winter I, Winter II, Winter III, Spring and Summer.
Students explore freestyle, panna, 3v3, 4v4, soccer tennis, 5v5 futsal, 6v6, 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11. Music and dance join strength, speed, agility, quickness and fitness work, with metrics tracking to follow development over time. Activities adapt to age, ability, space and each school’s needs.
Pulaski: sport, development and peace
April 6, 2026
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace: soccer, student performances, music and dance at Pulaski School, with participation from UNA-USA Greater Detroit.
Watch the full April event video
September 21, 2026
Pulaski School Soccer Waza Tournament for Peace, marking the International Day of Peace and the launch of year-round school programming.
Watch the September Peace Day video
Read the press release and event resources
The original release contains planning figures; these are not presented as verified final attendance.
School appearances and creative participation
Detroit Waza — César Chávez school appearanceWatch the archive recording.
School appearance — break dancingWatch the archive recording.
School programs, past and present
The school archive brings together current programs and past collaborations. Detroit Public Schools Community District and Momentum Academy in Waterford are part of the current program record. The Detroit Southwest interschool futsal work connects school participation with small-sided competition.
Detroit Public Schools Community District — district and schools
Private Catholic school
Public charter school
Dearborn: Just Play and Soccer Waza
School-age development continues beyond the school day. Just Play and Waza offer age-specific training in Dearborn, with developmental and skill-specific programs.
Explore Just Play’s Waza training programs · Waza skill-specific training
Proposals and next stages
Proposals for César Chávez Academy, Redford Union, Hamtramck and broader Detroit expansion are development work, distinct from the completed school appearances shown above. A past appearance does not mean a proposed year-round program has been implemented.
Read the published Street to School expansion proposal · Pulaski media packet, itinerary and program resources
Film, music and creative learning resources
Explore Waza’s film and music archive as creative learning resources. These links document the wider creative work; they are not presented as recordings of specific school events.
- Golden Shoes — film video
- Golden Shoes — Waza behind the scenes
- Positive Waza hip-hop — music collection
- Waza International — music
Access and continuity
Over thirty years, Soccer Waza has helped thousands of players worldwide access scholarships, connecting development with opportunities in education and the game.
A school’s inability to pay does not have to prevent a program. Soccer Waza works with schools to connect coaching, reusable equipment and shared resources with local needs.
Contact Soccer Waza about a school program · Explore Grassroots to Global Sports Diplomacy