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SBS World View program| Australia's Street Socceroos Announced Episode
Australia's new football World Cup team has been announced .. and no... that's not the Socceroos as we know them ... it's the Street Socceroos ... and they'll be playing in Melbourne's Federation Square in early December.
Former Socceroo and Melbourne Victory Football Club captain, Kevin Muscat, handed the Street Socceroos their green and gold jerseys after a training session on Thursday.
The event they're preparing for is the 2008 Homeless World Cup with 56 countries represented, including eight nations in the first Women's World Cup tournament in street soccer.
The Homeless World Cup competition which started in Graz, Austria in 2003, and is made up of people who are homeless and marginalised.
They're the ones who have accepted an opportunity to change their lives by playing a form of street soccer.
The competition expanded to Sweden in 2004, Edinburgh in 2005, then Cape Town and last year it was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
Australia's hosting of the Homeless World Cup is a first. There will be 200 matches played, each of two 7-minute halves. Andrew Kruger is speaking with Greg Dyett. Davidde Corran was at the announcement of the team and supplied the audio.
[ Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:11:41 +1000 ]
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