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Sports enthusiasts in several Asian countries will now be able to buy a range of unique sports equipment from New Zealand company Packaworld International, thanks to an agreement with one of China’s leading sports equipment suppliers, AirGoal Sports.

Following several years of collaboration, Packaworld and AirGoal Sports have entered a distribution agreement, which extends Packaworld’s distribution network to east Asian countries, including China.

Packaworld CEO Peter Roberts said the agreement was a significant milestone in Packaworld’s history and a huge step towards achieving the company’s vision of bringing the joy of sport to more people around the world.

Packaworld sent portable football goals to the Fijian village of Namara to help bring the joy of sport to children at a school being rebuilt after Cyclone Winston.

Fulton Primary School has more than 100 students, and is located two hours’ drive from the town of Rakiraki in Fiji’s Ra province. Following the destruction of the school’s classrooms by the powerful February 2016 cyclone, tents were deployed as temporary classrooms, and the school sports field was affected by the need to store materials for construction.

Football Packagoals were transported to the school by the Gracegate Centre’s ‘Move to Fiji’ school rebuild initiative.

One of New Zealand’s newest junior football clubs has been given a leg up thanks to Junior Football Packagoals from Kiwi company Packaworld International.

The high quality 2x1 metre inflatable goals arrived with the Waihi AFC Juniors earlier this month and played a starring role on Sunday (25 July) during a special training session with 2016 McDonald’s Junior Coach of the Year Nic Millichip.

More than 50 young footballers and parents attended Sunday’s session, which was arranged by Waihi AFC Juniors programme organisers Richard James and Rudy Sas to give local children the chance to learn from one of the country’s top coaches.

Young street footballers in Panama City now have a way to turn their parks and urban spaces into football pitches thanks to Packaworld International.

On a trip to Panama to support the 2017 Latin American Special Olympics Games, Packaworld International CEO Peter Roberts encountered a group of young street footballers.

Once Football Packagoals were inflated, a classic game of street football kicked off, turning a Panama City park into an improvised football stadium where the joy of the game brought in more players and spectators.

​The goals were given to the players afterwards so they could take the game with them and play for real wherever and whenever they wanted to.

Every week, around 400 children in Wellington, New Zealand, take to the field to play nursery football as part of an innovative programme using Football Packagoals.

Known as Little Dribblers Football Club, the programme inspires children aged up to seven years old to play football and develop the basic social skills required for the sport.

The programme recently purchased inflatable Junior Football Packagoals to replace the steel goals that were previously used, and they have now been rolled out in Wellington and at other Little Dribblers franchises around New Zealand.

Junior Football Packagoals supplied by Packaworld International helped children diagnosed with cancer to enjoy themselves in Camp Quality events held around New Zealand earlier this month.

Packaworld’s support also included a special offer to contribute NZD $40 per Junior Football Packagoal sold, in addition to a 20 per cent discount on a range of goals.

Children at this year’s Camp Quality enjoyed playing football using the portable junior football Packagoals. Other activities at the camps included stage performances, jet boating, water slides, theme park rides, farm visits and other sporting activities.