The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field
What's most important is that anything is possible And as a community or team you can overcome incredibly impossible odds Prasit Hemmin founding member of the Panyee Football Club
KOH PANYEE THAILAND 1985 Prasit Hemmin lived in a village on stilts Prasit woke early each morning before school to help his father Together they loaded the longboat with nets while his mother brewed coffee and sliced jackfruit in the kitchen Like many villagers Prasit's father spent his days fishing for groupers and prawns He spent his nights tying nets and dreaming of the next day's catch
But Prasit dreamed of things other than fish And last night the moon had been full