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Tuesday, August 19, 2003

The Homeless World Cup. Interesting angle in helping the world's homeless. As seen on HBO Real Sports. Mary Carillo reports that there were even groupies!

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That's pretty cool, bull! Pity I hadn't heard of it earlier. Well, I wish them every success. I wonder what the after effects will be for the participants in this first tourney. It'd be nice if the site had some follow-up reports or on-going followup blogging, something grassroots like that.

Since autumn 2002 Manchester United supports the english homeless squad within its "United Football in the Community Scheme" with training facilities and professional coaches. During training sessions Manu stars and Alex Ferguson, manager of ManU, joined the Homeless Team for some kick outs Damn you Man U and Fergie, don't you know you're supposed to be evil? The whole thing seems a marvellous idea.

I've heard of this before... Sounds great. So, if i was homeless i could be on a team?

You're not? I always assumed you were typing from a public library.

Don't diss the library! Or me and the rest of my white, suburbanite, peeps will come lookin' for you.

word.

So your saying they have money for teams and international competitions, get big corporate sponsors and assists from major clubs such as ManUre but not money to, like, get these people a roof over the head. Okay then...

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