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Founder | Raimonds Elbakjans [1] |
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Type | Non-governmental organization |
Focus | Youth street sports and culture |
Area served | Sport, Culture |
Website | ghetto |
The major sports of youth street sports and culture movement Ghetto Games [2] are 3x3 basketball, 3x3 football, [3] 3x3 floorball, pancration - Ghetto Fight, street dance - Ghetto dance and such extreme sports as BMX, skateboarding, extreme inline, scooters, wakeboarding, velo trial and velo trial bikes and freestyle motorcycle. [4] [5] Individual sports might have direction as well, such as 1vs1 football and 1vs1 basketball. The event also includes the musical project similar to X-Factor. [6]
Ghetto Games was founded by former Latvian basketball player Raimonds Elbakjans. [7] [8]
Since 2019: [9]
The mission of Ghetto Games is to create a platform for young people to develop their talents - where they can open up physically and morally as well as create a place where people who were dropped out of school or rejected from other places, would feel accepted. [10]
Vladislav Lakse joined Ghetto Games in the first season and did his first form of digital art about street basketball which was later used in Ghetto street art. [11]
Eleven 3x3 street football tournaments, in eleven European countries - "Ghetto Football Euro League 2022" will take place in eleven countries - Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, the final, in the capital of Latvia, Riga. [12]