What is the connection between the Community Street Soccer Program and the Homeless World Cup?
The Community Street Soccer Program, known as Street Soccer, is the grass roots program, organised by The Big Issue Australia and operating across the country to engage homeless and marginalised people and empower them to change their lives. Participants from Street Soccer have gone on to represent Australia as Street Socceroos at the Homeless World Cup. The Homeless World Cup is an annual international football tournament that brings together participants from street soccer programs from around the world. In 2008 The Big Issue proudly hosted the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne that saw more than 50 teams from across the world, 100,000 spectators and 250 local, national and international media descend on Federation Square for the week long event. The Big Issue does not host or organise the Homeless World Cup every year. It is managed by Homeless World Cup International and hosted by different organisations in each country. In September 2009, our Street Socceroos will compete in Milan,
