Hope through Football

Australian National Football Team playing on the World Cup that takes place in South Africa in June of this year is not the only team from Australia that will actually compete there.

A Football team called “Football United” from Australia will take a part in the inaugural 2010 Football For Hope tournament, an official event of the FIFA World Cup. Started in August of 2006, Team Football United was intended to “build bridges and help new-coming kids, particularly from refugee and disadvantaged backgrounds, settle more easily into Australia using football to bring them together with local teams and communities.” The team hosts children from countries as disparate as Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Bosnia, El Salvador, Sudan, and Ghana.

More than football, the team is helping children stay in school and achieve educational outcomes as well as sporting and social ones. The tournament they’re going to in South Africa is “recognition for programs like ours across the world that are using football as a vehicle to change society.”

Beside the football, there will be a cultural exchanges and workshops for the four boys and four girls attending from each country.
We are thrilled to bring you a news such as this because, this is also one of the main key points of the World Youth Stars Program and Idea. It is giving chance to youth, to young players to overcome the differences and borders that were put by adults in the past.

Only in the World with skies blue and clear Youth Stars can truly shine in their beauty.