make the difference

in 1986, a group of young football (soccer) fans in the island fishing village of koh panyee decided to start their own football team. recognizing that their rocky island provided no open space for the sport, the children collected scrap wood and built a floating dock in the middle of the ocean to serve as their field. their passion and ingenuity, combined with the technical skills they developed through practice on such a small, rough field, were the start of history. the team began to enter competitions on the mainland, and their success turned the panyee FC into what is today one of southern thailand’s best football clubs, having won the ‘youth champions of southern thailand’ competition for the last seven years.