The Olympics were fun, the Paralympics were bloody awesome, but the sporting event I’m most looking forward to is the 2008 Homeless World Cup, which is being hosted by Melbourne from the 1st to the 7th of December.
But what’s most exciting about this event is that it will be the first time in Cup history that women will play in their very own Women’s Homeless World Cup!
Of the 500 homeless and marginalised people from 56 countries coming to Australia to play in the tournament, 80 women from Cameroon, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, Zambia, Liberia and Paraguay will leave their problems at their nation’s airports to come and play football.
Players from last year’s tournament such as Michele da Silva won best female player before going on to be selected to represent Brazil in the national under 21’s women’s team. Cheri of Liberia has also turned her life around after her stint at the Homeless World Cup last year by winning an athlete scholarship to attend a USA college for four years.
What better reason to trek down to Melbourne than to support our sporting sistas from developing nations!?
The games will be played at Federation Square and Birrarung-Mar in Melbourne City on 1-7 December. See you there!
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