Read: Britain’s only full-time Deaf football coach (via The Guardian)

The Guardian has published an interview with Ben Lampert, who works for Brentford FC and is Britain’s only full-time Deaf football coach. Read it here.

Extract:

“I can’t see why it can’t happen, but only if the clubs are deaf aware,” he says. “They have to know about the communication. A professional deaf player would be a huge statement for the deaf community. There are deaf players out there but they just need the opportunities. The problem is that people get judged. They think you can’t do it and they tend to be a bit patronising. We need to take that away and judge people on their skills and ability rather than their deafness. It is similar to foreign managers in the Premier League who cannot speak English. They have to use an interpreter to translate and it would be the same for a deaf person. If you speak Spanish, you might need an interpreter and it would be the same for deaf people. It should be possible. That is my big dream.”