Brazil - Last Training Stage
Posted by Brazil - 23/09/2008
Brazilian "short list" group dreams about Australia
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Team Brazil is organised by OCAS (Civil Organisation for Social Action) who also run the street paper. Players are chosen for their attitude and commitment as well as football skill. With many arguing that street football's home is the Brazillian streets it is always an exciting experience to meet the players fielded from Brazil. World Rankings: Copenhagen 2007 - 22nd; Cape Town 2006 - 16th; Edinburgh 2005 - 11th; Gothenburg 2004 - 15th; Graz 2003 - 4th
Posted by Brazil - 23/09/2008
Brazilian "short list" group dreams about Australia
Posted by Brazil - 09/09/2008
1st Social Football Qualifying selects Brazilian national team in an event that counted with the special participation of Argentina
Posted by Brazil - 08/07/2008
Michelle, player with Brazil, Copenhagen 2007 Homeless World Cup won the best female player, she also went on to win a place in the squad for Brazil's national women's team. She explains how it happened.
Posted by Brazil - 19/07/2007
After months of intense preparation the Brazilian street soccer National Team is ready for the Homeless World Cup 2007.
Posted by Brazil - 02/05/2007
The non-profit enterprise OCAS - Organização Civil de Ação Social (Civil Organization for Social Action, in English words), has been coordinating the Brazilian street soccer team for the last three editions of the Homeless World Cup. The organization publishes a magazine called Ocas, sold exclusively by people living in poverty or under a social risk situation, who have in this job the chance of effectively changing their lives.
For the next years OCAS plans to create the Brazilian League of Street Soccer, which will gather dozens of organizations and thousands of people in a situation of social risk from all over the country. One of its outcomes might be the happening of the Homeless World Cup in Brazil in 2010.
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