Lisa Wrightsman is making headlines for her incredible strength and courage to completely change her life by getting involved with a soccer program. Wrightsman reportedly faced drug and alcohol addiction problems just over a year ago but thanks to a program run by the Volunteers of America Club Wrightsman has successfully turned her life around and is now encouraging others to do the same by volunteering.

The program Wrightsman got involved in was a women’s soccer team through the Volunteers of America and thanks to their guidance and support she has changed drastically. Wrightsman says she is very happy with how she changed and as a result she is helping others do the same thing with their lives.

Upon returning from an incredible trip to Brazil with the soccer team she had become part of Wrightsman decided she was going to take the street soccer program one step further. Wrightsman has been working hard ever since returning to make it possible for more women to get involved in the program and thanks to her efforts women are now able to join and play street soccer for as long as they want at absolutely no cost to them. The entire program is run on donations and government funding and thanks to Wrightsman’s amazing success story more and more women are finding that street soccer is an incredibly program that makes it possible for them to completely change their lives and get everything back on track.

For the past few months the entire country of Japan has been suffering from numerous setbacks, tragedies, and natural disasters so the amazing outcome of yesterday’s women’s World Cup final match comes as much needed support for the country. Japan successfully defeated the United States in the FIFA Women’s World Cup final after the match went into multiple extended periods of play.

It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Japanese fans watched the game either on television or at the game in Germany and millions more found the results immediately upon waking up the morning after the game. The results are quite surprising to many as the United States was expected to win but for a country in need this powerful victory will likely have a major affect on the morale around the country and around the world.

Analysts say that perhaps the most amazing and inspiring part of the entire game for the Japanese is that despite trailing by one goal at multiple times the Japanese women continued to keep cool under pressure and perform when it was needed. The Japanese team performed admirably well during the entire match and when it counted they were able to connect and eventually secure the win. Overall the entire country of Japan has been celebrating the outstanding victory; it is nice to see some good news coming to a country that has been hit by so many negative and depressing things in the past 12 months.

Harvard Students Create Electric Soccer Ball

This week a group of researchers at Harvard University officially unveiled their recent invention which may bring electricity to areas of the world thanks to a very unique solution. The project started as a simple idea that there must be an easy way to generate electricity and through significant testing and experimentation the research team managed to create what they call the “soccket” ball.

At first it may sound confusing but the “soccket” ball is simply a portable generator which is powered by humans. The research team essentially found a way to combine electrical generators with a basic soccer ball meaning that with each kick and bounce a little bit of electricity is generated by the ball.

The ball is reportedly able to power a small LED flashlight for about 3 hours after just 15 minutes of play. In many third world countries soccer is already a very popular sport so by bringing in dozens of these new electricity generating balls it would be possible to bring a substantial amount of electricity to remote areas of the world.

Amazingly the research team has already developed numerous “soccket” balls and deployed them to various parts of the world. The team is currently working on a commercial version of the ball which would likely be sold in parts of the world as a toy while also being donated to third world countries as a sort of humanitarian project. No word on when the commercial version may be available but the invention alone is quite impressive.