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Katie Owen on Radio New Zealand

On Monday the 31st of January the wonderful Katie Owen was interviewed by Kathryn Ryan on the Nine to Noon show. Katie talked about the history and work of Street Football Aotearoa since its formation in early 2008 as well as our plans for the future. To listen to the interview in full click here or on [...]

Football Volunteer Streets Ahead

Great news that Katie Owen, a Trustee of the Street Football Aotearoa, has been awarded this month’s Wellington Community Champions Award. The award is part of an initative by local MPs and The Wellingtonian newspaper and Katie was presented with her award by the MP for Central Wellington Grant Robertson. Read Rebecca Thompson’s article by [...]

Homeless World Cup players return from Rio

Great article by Charlie Gates from The Press down in Christchurch.

The Crowd Goes Wild Report

Hayley Holt from the Crowd Goes Wild came and interviewed some of the guys at the OFC training camp in the build up to the trip to Rio. Hayley was very popular with players… in fact they were queuing up to speak to her. The report was on the show Thursday evening, click on the [...]

More from Camp…

It’s been an awesome couple of days for the team at the OFC Headquarters – full of good fun, good training, good home-cooked kai and heaps of good people to talk to. Although the training games and exercises have been hard out, there’s also been plenty of opportunity for everyone just to get to know [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]