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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!
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.
posted by squealy at 04:50 AM on August 20, 2003
I've heard of this before... Sounds great. So, if i was homeless i could be on a team?
posted by StarFucker at 08:31 AM on August 20, 2003
You're not? I always assumed you were typing from a public library.
posted by Samsonov14 at 08:37 AM on August 20, 2003
Don't diss the library! Or me and the rest of my white, suburbanite, peeps will come lookin' for you.
word.
posted by lilnemo at 02:05 PM on August 20, 2003
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...
posted by billsaysthis at 02:12 PM on August 20, 2003
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.