TED: How Argentina's blind soccer team became champions | Gonzalo Vilarino

TED: How Argentina's blind soccer team became champions | Gonzalo Vilarino

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The transcript narrates the journey of a coach working with blind athletes, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of adapting sports for the visually impaired. It begins with an accidental injury, leading to reflections on teaching and learning. The coach discovers the unexpected abilities of blind students and adapts his methods to train them for high-performance sports. The narrative culminates in the 2006 World Championship, where the team achieves victory against Brazil. The coach later transitions to coaching Power Soccer for wheelchair athletes, emphasizing the importance of changing societal perceptions of disability through sports.

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