Homeless World Cup Impacted One Million Lives, Says Co-Founder Mel Young Armstrong Vas - The Peninsula
go to original August 3, 2015

Homeless World Cup 2014: An Event to Remember (HomelessWorldCup)

The Homeless World Cup - a unique, pioneering social movement which uses football to inspire homeless people to change their lives - has positively impacted the lives of 1 million people around the globe, an official of the event said.

“We now work with a minimum hundred thousand people every year, we have worked with millions so far, as some of them have got jobs and some have become professional players. Some have got jobs as bus driver, waiter that does not matter, as they are in society as it is successful we keep doing more and we want more in the world,” Mel Young Co-founder of the Homeless World Cup said.

Each year, Homeless World Cup network of global street football partners select 500 players to compete in the annual Homeless World Cup tournament.

...Explaining the concept of the Homeless World Cup the official said: “We work with 74 countries around the world; you are only allowed to come only once to a Homeless World Cup because the whole idea is that you are moving away so you are not homeless anymore. This is generally the case as we have nearly had 90 percent change, so homeless people get jobs and houses.”

“Once a year we have an event (Cup), every year we do this, the best players in the country represent their country at the Homeless World Cup. This year it is in Amsterdam in Holland, last year it was in Santa Tiago in Chile, and we have 48 men’s and 16 women’s countries this year.

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