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Being homeless mean being on the sidelines of life. Street Soccer US offers the most excluded a chance to get in the game. We promote the growth and development of a national network of grassroots soccer programs helping the impoverished and homeless move forward in life. As the official US partner of the Homeless World Cup, each year we host the Homeless USA Cup, where teams from inner cities and social service agencies compete for the US Cup and where the homeless have the chance to be selected for the US National Team that travels the Homeless World Cup tournament. Browse our site. Read our blog. Connect to the community. And get in the game yourself by playing with us and investing in the lives of our athletes. Street Soccer USA has been incubated within the Urban Ministry Center in Charlotte, NC |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan Sara Silvenoinnen of the Washtenaw County Project Outreach Team founded PORT, Ann Arbor’s street soccer team in August 2007. Atlanta, Georgia The Atlanta team won the Fair Play trophy at the first ever Homeless USA Cup in Charlotte in 2006. The team is again organized by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless and coached by Boubacar Sarr. |
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Austin, Texas Sabelyn Pussman is working with both the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) and Life Works, a youth homeless service agency, to create Austin’s first street soccer team, the Austin Entourage. Charlotte, North Carolina The Charlotte team is organized by the Urban Ministry Center’s Street Soccer 945 program. Street Soccer 945 was the US Representative to the Homeless World Cup in 2005 (formerly named Art Works F.C.), 2006 and 2007. |
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Los Angeles, California Andrea Marchetti is the manager of the LA program. Andrea works at Jovenes, Inc., in Boyle Heights serving culturally appropriate services to homeless Latinos. Jovenes will be the lead organization in the area and has plans to get other organizations involved as well New York, New York Organized out of the Ward’s Island transitional housing program of HELP USA, New York’s team was only recently started but could be one of the tops teams in this year’s DC Trials. |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota Jose Acuna formed his team out of the largest service agency for homeless youth in the twin cities. Youth Link provides case management, education, life development and now soccer to its clients. Richmond, Virginia The Richmond team is under development at the Daily Planet, a comprehensive health services and activities center for the homeless. The team is organized by Maureen Neal at the Daily Planet with volunteer coaches Abu Ahmed and Steven Hatter. |
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St. Louis, Missouri Keith Diesner and Flomo David started a street soccer team at the Peter and Paul Community Services in the fall of 2007. San Francisco, California Julius Ujeh has a comprehensive soccer resume working both in Nigeria and in the United States. Founder of the Spitfire Soccer Academy, Julius discovered Street Soccer USA in 2007 and has taken the lead of programs in Northern California. |
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Washington, DC Michael Knight, US National Team member for the Homeless World Cup 2006, has gone back to DC to help form the DC Street Soccer Club. Michael, with assistance from the National Coalition and Street Sense Newspaper, recruits most players from the CCNV shelter where he lives.
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US NATIONAL TEAM 8 players are selected to represent the United States at the Homeless World Cup each year. These players are chosen not only for their soccer abilities and success off the field but for their capacity to fullfil their role of goodwill ambassadors and to serve as advocates for people who are homeless. Our nation team members become local heroes and inspire others in their communities to dream big and work hard. |
 The US Street Soccer Team With The Honorable James P Cain at the Homeless World Cup in Copenhagen, Denamark, 2007. |
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The Homeless USA Cup 2008 in Washington DC June 27-29th Admission is FREE! Enjoy exciting 4vs4 soccer. Games are only 15 minutes and feature lots of goals. 100 homeless athletes from California to New York travel to DC to compete for the Homeless USA Cup and try out for the US team that will travel to the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia, alongside no fewer than 47 other countries. Where: 11th and H Street at Washington Kastles StadiumWhat and When:
· CBS Early Show: 7:45 Am Friday
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The Homeless USA Cup 2008 in Washington DC June 27-29th Celebrity Soccer appearances by Ben Olsen and Clyde Simms of DC United, music, poetry, soccer skills competition and more . . Bring Granola bars for DC Central Kitchen's Healthy Start Program Volunteers and Supporters needed. To get involved please email "volunteer@streetsoccerusa.org." Also, attend the matches as act of volunteering. By supporting you can play a small role in ending homelessness. YOU MUST go see the film bought by ESPN that features some of the athletes competing in the tournament: "Kicking it" premiers June 13 in NYC and June 27th in DC and LA--www.kickingitthefilm.com For even more info visit the www.streetsoccerusa.org and be sure to link to our blog! And learn about the Homeless World Cup at www.homelessworldcup.org Sponsors include: Ted Leonsis Foundation, Nike, US Soccer Foundation, and Wachovia. DC Hosts are the National Coalition for the Homeless and Street Sense Newspaper. Street Soccer USA puts on the Homeless USA Cup and is incubated within the Urban Ministry Center. Click to go Back! > |
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