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 “I don’t want to miss this chance, you know?”

“I don’t want to miss this chance, you know?”

November 6, 2019

There are many ways and places you meet new people at the Homeless World Cup: on the training pitch, in the food hall, walking to or from the accommodation or venue, or even, it seems, while [...]

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 HOMELESS WORLD CUP SCORES WITH FUTURE HOSTS

HOMELESS WORLD CUP SCORES WITH FUTURE HOSTS

September 3, 2019

The Homeless World Cup Foundation, organisers of the inspirational Homeless World Cup, is delighted to announce that its first ever formal host city bidding process has received a record-breaking [...]

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 From prison to pavement and beyond

From prison to pavement and beyond

August 14, 2019

With the announcement some hours before that the 2020 Homeless World Cup would take place in Tampere, Finland, it was appropriate that a major focus of the final day’s debate in the Bevan Tent [...]

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 Day eight at the Homeless World Cup Cardiff 2019

Day eight at the Homeless World Cup Cardiff 2019

August 4, 2019

This week over five hundred players from almost fifty countries arrived in Wales to represent their countries in a festival of football created to harness the power of sport in transforming the [...]

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 Tampere, Finland to host the 2020 Homeless World Cup

Tampere, Finland to host the 2020 Homeless World Cup

August 4, 2019

Tampere, Finland will play host to the 18th edition of the Homeless World Cup, which will take place in late June 2020. More than 500 players will travel to Finland’s second largest city to play [...]

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 Unlocking the stories that can tackle poverty and homelessness

Unlocking the stories that can tackle poverty and homelessness

August 3, 2019

Sport has the ability to change perceptions, and promote compassion and activism, but what role can and does literature and telling stories play in advocating change? The best stories are the [...]

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 “Football was the turning point”

“Football was the turning point”

August 3, 2019

Mexico City, Poznań, Santiago, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Oslo, and now Cardiff: street soccer goalkeeper turned coach Marius Pazemechas from Lithuania is fast becoming a Homeless World Cup veteran. [...]

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 “I’m not saying I deserve it, but I’m ready for it”

“I’m not saying I deserve it, but I’m ready for it”

August 3, 2019

Without the referee—without the person in the middle of the pitch with the whistle in hand—we wouldn’t have any football. And we wouldn’t have a Homeless World Cup. Sometimes we forget that. That [...]

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 “It felt like everyone came from the same country that day”

“It felt like everyone came from the same country that day”

August 3, 2019

“Football has been part of my life since forever. I grew up in a part of the city where we played football every day. We didn’t have the means to play video games and things like that, so [...]

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 “It just gets you right in the heart”

“It just gets you right in the heart”

August 3, 2019

They watched Cristiano Ronaldo score in the Champions League final in Cardiff, but volunteers Steve White and David Swarts insist their experiences of the Homeless World Cup top it all. White [...]

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