Archive for the ‘Media Coverage’ Category
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 [...]
Highly Commended Volunteer of the Year
Street Football Aotearoa Chairperson, Katie Owen, was awarded 2010 Highly Commended Volunteer of the Year in early June. No, Katie doesn’t look like this! That’s Steve McLuckie accepting the award on her behalf, (on the left). To learn more about the Intrepid Travel Volunteer of the Year Awards read this story over at Good Magazine.
Wellington is Streets ahead in Soccer
Kimberley Crayton-Brown of Newswire writes about the Street Soccer National Championships held in Wellington in November 2009. The tournament was held on the same day as the All Whites’ heroic victory over Bahrain that secured qualification for the 2010 World Cup. The Street Soccer competition, held earlier in the day on Queens Wharf and part [...]
Changing lives through football
Bruce Munro of the Otago Daily Times writes about the project run by our partner agency in Dunedin, PACT. The article was written in the run up to the Street Soccer National Championships held in Wellington in November 2009. To read the story, click on the link here or on the image below.
Everitt Johnson, 2008 New Zealand Captain, on Nine to Noon
In the run up to the screening of Kicking It at the Human Rights Film Festival in May 2009 the Captain of the 2008 Homeless World Cup team talked candidly and very movingly with Lynn Freeman on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show. Everitt talks about the impact of the experience on him, his [...]
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.
2008 Captain, Everitt Johnson & Norm Hewitt on Nine to Noon
Everitt & Norm talked to Kathryn Ryan in November 2008 shortly before the trip to Melbourne for the 2008 Homeless World Cup. Click on the image to hear the interview.
Tom and DCM’s Stephanie McIntyre on Nine to Noon
Street Football Aotearoa Trustee Tom Kelly and Stephanie McIntyre, Director of partner agency Downtown Community Ministry in Wellington, talk about Homelessness and the Homeless World Cup. They spoke to Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show back in April 2008 at the start of our campaign to have a New Zealand Team [...]
