{"id":197,"date":"2007-07-31T18:04:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howethical.com\/uncategorized\/5th-homeless-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T17:04:27","slug":"5th-homeless-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/blog\/get-involved\/5th-homeless-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Homeless World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oops. I&#8217;ve missed the start of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelessworldcup.org\/\" title=\"Homeless World Cup homepage\">5th Annual Homeless World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look out for some more coverage on this tomorrow, as Eric Cantona is running a special training clinic today for the 500 players who have traveled from all over the world to Copenhagen to take part.<\/p>\n<p>All of the players in the Homeless World Cup are, yes, you guessed it, homeless, but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent their country and change their lives.<\/p>\n<p>77% of the players change for the better &#8211; coming off drugs and alcohol, moving into jobs, homes, training, and education. Some have gone even further and are have trained as football coaches or become players.<\/p>\n<p>That makes it a hat trick of good news stories this week about the beautiful game, what with the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/6921078.stm\" title=\"Iraq wins Asian Cup\">Lions of Mesopotamia winning the Asian Cup<\/a> last week, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howethical.com\/climate-change\/will-football-save-the-planet\/\" title=\"Will football save the planet?\">football having the potential to promote green issues to kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will football save the planet? Not on it&#8217;s own it won&#8217;t, but if initiatives like this continue to succeed, then it might just save the planet one person at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Support sport making a difference:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelessworldcup.org\/fanclub\" title=\"join the fanclub\">the homeless world cup fanclub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/fair-deal-trading\/global-all-star-football\/\" title=\"Shameless product plug\">fair trade football<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/advanced_search_result.php?x=0&amp;y=0&amp;keywords=football\" title=\"more footballs!\">EthicalSuperstore.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalsuperstore.com\/products\/birlinn\/goal-the-story-of-the-homeless-world-cup\/\" title=\"The story of the Homeless World Cup\">Goal! The story of the Homeless World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops. 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