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Partners Celebration of UEFA Grassroots Day in Pictures

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:21:00 GMT

Forty one of our partners have signed up to celebrate the Day by hosting either a training session; a mini tournament or football festivals.

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Homeless World Cup Family celebrates UEFA Grassroots Day

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:36:00 GMT

As a way of demonstrating the work of our national partners and the relationship we have with UEFA, we have invited our partners to host an event with their players during the week of UEFA Grassroots Day.

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News from Ireland and their Street League

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:28:00 GMT

We reproduce here a story from our Partner in Ireland and their Street League Competition.

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South Africans look to expand their football programmes

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:56:00 GMT

Homeless World Cup Partner in South Africa, SA Homeless Street Soccer (SAHSS) held its Western Cape Provincial street soccer finals in Cape Town on April 14th 2012.

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Denmark Kicks Off the 2012 Football Season

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:45:00 GMT

Our National Partner in Denmark, OMBOLD, has held this season's first tournament and for the first time ever they have also run a women’s competition.

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Marisa, Paraguay: "Football greatly influenced the girls' lives"

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:10:00 GMT

Maria Brown was the coach for Team Paraguay at the Rio 2010 Homeless World Cup. Here are her impressions about how that tournament and football have made a real change to the Paraguayan girls who were involved.

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Big Football Day in New Zealand

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:57:00 GMT

Homeless World Cup National Partner in New Zealand - Street Football Aotearoa (SFA) hosts the 2nd Street Footy National Championship in Lower Hutt on the 31st of March.

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Bobie, Bulgaria: Real football makes real wonders

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:03:00 GMT

One of the youngest football players in the Bulgarian "Team of Hope" is 21 year old Borislav Angelov, Bobie, who joined the project in October 2011 and has hardly missed a training session since.

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D-Day in India

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:58:00 GMT

Today was D-Day in Chennai, the time when the 7 young people we had been working with took centre stage and delivered the first sessions of the #FootballFirst Coach Education Programme to 20 new coaches.

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Indonesia creates a "League of Change"

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:10:00 GMT

Our National Partner in Indonesia, Rumah Cemara, has hosted its first street soccer tournament called "League of Change".

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Homeless Academy Changing Lives In Finland

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:38:00 GMT

The Homeless World Cup is more than an annual tournament. Around the world every day of the week people are changing their lives through becoming involved in playing football.

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Inspiring pictures from India. Football creating change

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:34:00 GMT

Follow the latest pictures from India where the Homeless World Cup Team are delivering the #FootballFirst programme.

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Football Legend Emmanuel Petit joins the Homeless World Cup Team

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:33:00 GMT

The former Arsenal, Barcelona, and France international player, Emmanuel Petit, has become a Homeless World Cup Global Ambassador supporting our vision of football changing homeless people's lives.

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Homeless World Cup Team in India to deliver #Football First programme

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:23:00 GMT

Find out the latest news about the football development sessions currently being run by the Homeless World Cup team in India. Text by Deborah Ball, International Partnership Manager.

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Cambodian player Sam Yi turns professional footballer

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:10:00 GMT

Former player, Sam Yi, involved with our National Partner in Cambodia, Happy Football Cambodia Australia (HFCA) has signed with a professional team in the Cambodian Premier League.

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Football creates positive impact for Danish Players

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:35:00 GMT

Players from Team Denmark at the last Homeless World Cup tournament turned their lives around after their involvement with football projects.

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Heungsik Lim, South Korea: "A home is ones' life"

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:01:00 GMT

Spring 2011, Heungsik Lim walked to the Big Issue office. He had problems, difficulties. Started working as a vendor. By working as a vendor, his physical condition improved gradually and ended up playing for the Korean Team at the Paris 2011 Homeless World Cup. Read the story told by himself.

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Developing a Social Enterprise in Uganda to expand football projects

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:23:00 GMT

The Girls kick It project in Northern Uganda developed a poultry project as a social enterprise to help support the football training sessions.

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Ginan, Indonesia: "It's about what we can change through football"

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:55:00 GMT

Deradjat Ginandjar Koesmayadi from Indonesia talks about his involvement with football and how it changes lives.

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Jade, Scotland: "Thanks to football, I feel a whole different person"

info@homelessworldcup.org (Homeless World Cup) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:24:00 GMT

Player Profile: Jade Morrison, Scotland

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