In my first year of high school, a doctor told me to quit soccer — the sport I had grown up loving. After going through a long and painful recovery, I did what no athlete ever wants to do. I walked away.
But I refused to let that be my ending. I found purpose in donating gear to children in Central America who had never had the chance to even start. That act of giving gave me back something I thought I'd lost forever.
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A setback became a movement.
Cancha was born from pain — and from the stubborn belief that pain doesn't have to be the end. When Stacy Guevara was told to stop playing the sport she loved, she turned her grief into action.
She discovered that while she was mourning losing access to soccer, thousands of children in Central America had never had access at all — no cleats, no balls, no field to call their own.
Cancha exists to close that gap. We receive donations and send them directly to youth soccer programs across Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Belize — while also supporting athletes here who are fighting to stay in the game.
