Posts Tagged ‘football’
So it begins…
Copacabana ground to a standstill for an hour this morning for an Opening Parade full of colourful songs and dancing. Aotearoa isn’t really known for extroverted and emotional displays- so it was a largely stony-faced Kiwi team that marched along the seafront in a sea of screaming Norwegian Vikings, Nacho Libre Mexican wrestlers, Namibian singers [...]
Pair embarking on cup experience
What with everything else happening we forgot to share the latest piece by Charlie Gates in The Press. Tere and Paddy will also be joined on the trip from Christchurch by Gabor Radak from the City Mission. He’s the team’s Assistant Manager.
Football not only goal on Brazil trip
The latest piece of press in the run up to the New Zealand Team’s trip to Rio for the 2010 Homeless World Cup. The tournament runs from the 19th to the 26th of September. This article is from last Thursday’s Otago Dailty Times. Unfortunately Tim’s Brazilian matrimonial dream may well be scuppered by that no [...]
New Zealand Homeless World Cup Team on the Road to Rio
Street Football Aotearoa is delighted to announce that a team will represent Aotearoa/New Zealand at the Homeless World Cup in Rio de Janeiro in September. It is not known how many people are homeless in Aotearoa/New Zealand, but Street Football Aotearoa does know that its football projects help many homeless and marginalised people to participate [...]
World Cup heroes help get homeless team on its way
Awesome news. New Zealand Football has been instrumental in helping Street Football Aotearoa raise funds to take a Kiwi team to this year’s Homeless World Cup. Amanda Fisher writes in the Dominion Post about the help we’ve received as All White Andy Barron meets Fabian and the rest of the Wellington players. Click on the [...]
Street Football on Breakfast
Check out coverage of our Road to Rio (2010 Rio Homeless World Cup) on TV1′s Breakfast show with Paul Henry. Paul Henry’s bafflement as to why people are homeless in New Zealand is one of the key reasons for Street Football Aotearoa’s existence – to raise awareness and understanding of this issue. Until we have [...]
Volunteers raising funds for homeless footballers
June 23 Press Release – Downtown Community Ministry This week, not only are we celebrating the All Whites’ achievements at the football World Cup, but it is also Volunteer Awareness Week. New Zealand has a lesser-known football team fundraising to go to a different World Cup and this team is supported entirely by volunteers. The [...]
Street Football and Spanky
Listen to Steve’s chat with Spanky about Street Football Aotearoa and our ‘Road to Rio’ on Chistchurch’s RDU by clicking on the image below:
Homeless find hope in global game
Charlie Gates of The Press newspaper in Christchurch talks about New Zealand’s second shot at international football glory this year. Christchurch training is run in partnership with Christchurch City Mission. To read the story, click on the link here. To donate to the trust and help get the team to the Homeless World Cup, click [...]
Homing in on World Cup in Melbourne
In the run up to the Melbourne Homeless World Cup in 2008 the Auckland based members of the squad spoke to the Auckland Central Leader about their “once in a lifetime opportunity”. Click here or on the image below to read the article.
