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We are proud to announce that Mikey was chosen as one of the faces of Urbanball—a new NFT-based, play-to-earn street football game from EX-Sports. Urbanball is part of this mission to help underdog athletes increase their exposure and tap into revenue streams that would otherwise be out of reach to them. A large percentage of the money generated from […]

Blindness can’t stop 10-year-old Greek Cypriot Mikey Poulli, who lives in London, from pursuing his dreams of playing soccer professionally.

Lionel Messi helps out young blind Arsenal fan by sending him life-changing pair of £4,200 OrCam glasses… as Barcelona superstar heads up campaign to aid visually-impaired children. Lionel Messi has come to the aid of a young blind Arsenal fan after sending the child a life-changing pair of glasses produced by OrCam Technologies. The Barcelona […]

Promising young footballer who went blind at the age of seven has been earmarked as a future England star. When Mikey was six, he went for a routine eye test. But despite having near perfect vision, the optician noticed something wasn’t right. Further tests revealed the schoolboy from north London had a rare degenerative eye […]

Mikey Poulli meets Trent Alexander Arnold, Jadon Sancho and B1 England players at St Georges Park for a kick around wearing blindfolds.

Mikey meets Anthony Joshua at the ABC Boxing club, he got to listen to wise words and be given an inspirational message by the Word Heavy Weight Champion of the world. “Stay Strong, In Life, Some People Walk With Vision but that Don’t Matter. You Know Why? Because We Walk With Faith…” Anthony Joshua Listen […]

Mikey had an amazing experience at the Yiannimize supercar garage. We would like to thank Yianni for showing Mikey around the amazing location and he loved experiencing the sounds of the cars he was lucky to sit in.  Thank you for taking the time out for him, and for raising awareness of his eye condition […]

A nine-year-old boy Mikey, who lost his sight two years ago, was filmed during an indoor football training session in London on Monday. Mikey’s football coach, Ollie Monksfield, says the young player has “a tremendous bit of talent,” adding he is “doing a lot of ball manipulation, conditioning, passing, everything you could imagine but in […]

Blind Mikey Poulli, nine, reacts to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s winning goal for Arsenal against Aston Villa. Mikey, who went blind two years ago, is a huge Arsenal fan and listens to a special audio-kit to help him enjoy the games. Source: Independent.ie

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang once again came to Arsenal’s rescue on Sunday as he scored a last-minute winner against Aston Villa. Arsenal, who were 1-0 down and down to 10 men at half-time, managed to bring it back to 2-2 thanks to goals from Nicolas Pepe and Calum Chambers. But drawing wasn’t enough. If the Gunners were […]

This is the heartwarming moment a blind nine-year-old Arsenal fan met his idol Alexandre Lacazette.

A blind young Arsenal fan had an emotional encounter with one of his favorite players at Emirates Stadium in London recently, footage tweeted on August 2 shows. Aspiring footballer Mikey Poulli became fully blind when he was seven, but didn’t let his blindness stop him and now trains with England. He met his hero Alexandre […]

NOT LAC-KING CLASS Watch amazing moment blind boy, 9, feels Lacazette’s face as he meets his Arsenal hero and then calls him ‘class’. ALEXANDRE LACAZETTE proved his class off the pitch before he has to show it on it after making a young blind fan’s dream come true. The 28-year-old gave his time to Arsenal […]

Mesut Özil shares a lovely moment with Arsenal fan Mikey Poulli Mikey suddenly lost his sight two years ago at the age of seven but still dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Source: Facebook

Mesut Ozil met Mikey on the same day Arsenal beat Napoli in the Europa League. Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has posted a video on social media of him meeting a “special” young blind fan. The video shows the midfielder meeting Mikey, who Ozil said suffers from a rare eye disease, smiling in an Arsenal shirt […]

Football-mad Mikey Poulli suddenly lost his sight two years ago due to a congenital eye condition – meaning he could no longer play football with his team mates

The youngster was excited to meet the former player Everton great Tim Cahill has shared an adorable video meeting a young fan who lost his sight. Mikey Poulli was born fully sighted but due to a rare eye condition the Arsenal fan is now blind. The 7-year-old can be seen touching the former midfielder’s face […]

Mesut Ozil made a young Arsenal fan’s dream come true this week. The 30-year-old treated blind supporter Mikey to a night he will never forget at the Emirates on Thursday night as the North London side beat Napoli 2-0. After the match he was involved in a heartwarming meeting with a young supporter, who looked […]

Eight-year-old footballer shows off the extraordinary skills that have earned him a place training with England – one year after becoming blind

At the age of six, Mikey Poulli went for a routine eye check up where it was found that he had a rare retinal disease. From the age of seven, he has been completely blind and his football skills have picked up the interest from the England team and he will be eligible to join […]

Mikey Poulli is defying the odds by playing the game he loves despite losing his sight aged just seven. Keen footballer Mikey always dreamed of playing the sport professionally in the future but a routine check-up looked like it might put an end to his ambitions. A routine eye test discovered he has rod cone […]

Mikey Poulli was diagnosed with an incurable, inherited rare eye condition.

A gifted young footballer is training with England just a year after he went completely blind. Football-mad Londoner Mikey Poulli, aged eight, stunned coaches with his ability only months after losing his sight. He has now been earmarked as a potential star in B1 football for blind people, and has received FA funding for specialist […]

‘We blinked and our son had gone blind’ – Mikey Poulli’s inspirational story Mikey has a rare eye condition At the age of six, Mikey Poulli was fully sighted. Now eight years old, he has lost all of his vision due to a rare eye condition called Rod-Cone dystrophy. However, that hasn’t stopped him pursuing […]