Thursday, September 9, 2010

Rio 2010 Homeless World Cup

This is a cross-post of sorts from Eloisa's terrific blog about Brazil: The Good Blood. If you are not already following her work, I highly reccomend it.

It seems fitting in this country of all-things-futebol that Rio will be the host of the 8th Homeless World Cup.  Between September 19 - 26 there will be teams from 64 nations competing on Copacabana Beach in a world-class, international futebol tournament.

According to the Homeless World Cup website, 30,000 homeless people from all over the world have been in training to find a spot on the team that will represent their country.  All that work comes to a head in just over a week.  I'm looking forward to checking it out.

A ball can change the world.  Are you in?



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