Foot Mercato: From a neighborhood tournament to an international tournament, Impulstar has grown since its creation. What are the secrets of this dimension change?
Bernard Messi, co-founder of Impulstar: The secret of this change in Impulstar dimension is already a lot of work. I think of a vision, a vision with Meïssa N'Diaye, my partner, I think that we share the same vision, which is to have the ambition to project ourselves higher, year after year, not to set limits, and I think of having a 360 ° vision, focused on the social, on the sportsman, and on the event. Each time, we do not arise from limits, and as the slogan says, we let ourselves dream.
“We want to federate, it is important to us”
Foot Mercato: What are the values that Impulstar want to embody?
Bernard Messi : The values that we want to embody is respect and ambition, I think that it is only positive values, values around sport, the values that allow us all to find ourselves, and to continue to federate. As I often say, there are a lot of things that divide us, and today we want to federate, it is important to us, and it is all the values of sport, all those around sport, which we want to embody.
Foot Mercato: Why did you decided to open your Impulstar Park center?
Bernard Messi : Already for the beautiful story, it is following a discussion in 2019 with Rafael Cerdeira, co-founder this foot-max, these have been friends who have been in Argenteuil for fifteen years, who have a football center and who have expertise, so we said to ourselves why not bring together our expertise around the same project, and that gave Impulstar Park.
Foot Mercato: What are the future impulstar projects ??
Bernard Messi : The future projects are the grand finale that arrives in Paris, at the start of the school year, on October 23, where there will be Brazil, Switzerland, there will be the winner of the tour we made in Africa, and in Île-de-France, in Marseille, and the different stages in which we have made. Succeeding in launching the center with an academy, with a very large social part inside, on which we will devote ourselves, and I think that succeeding in the final is a very good step, to continue to make a very good edition which is a success, and which can always have so many echoes.
“Impulstar is a family fiber. It is evolution, it is success ”
Foot Mercato: What does Impulstar represent for you?
Dinos, rapper: Impulstar is street football in France. And beyond that, it's an institution now. It is even a brand that has given many talents the chance that became pros in the end, you see. And even talents who have become rappers, like Tiakola who participated as a player and then as an artist.
Rim'k, rapper: Impulstar for me, it's more than football, it's more than a group of young people who have ambition. For me, it's a movement in fact, it's a lot of things at the same time. And suddenly, it's things that talk to me a lot because the initiative comes from people of working -class neighborhoods as in the one I grew up. And then at the same time, it is a chance for the little brothers because there are lots of young talents with us and there are some who do not necessarily have the chance to be highlighted. And thanks to Impulstar, they are lucky. So here, we are very proud.
Foot Mercato: How do you find the Impulstar complex?
Dinos : It's beautiful and I haven't even seen everything yet, but it's beautiful, it's impressive. In fact, it is all the more touching when you know that it is your loved ones who created this, you do not realize and when you arrive, you see how crazy. It is a kind of platform for young people, so that they can come and play football, feast on tournaments etc.
Foot Mercato: Several young people participated in the tournament and have become professional players today, are courses that inspire you?
Rim’K : fully. These are the chances that we did not have, when we were younger. We would have had impulse, maybe there is one of us, instead of making rap, he would have done football, because he had the talent to do it. But we were in the small suburban clubs. The club itself has no ambition, so how do you yourself have ambitions? So that's where really, it's just exceptional what they can do.
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