When football finds a home

JUL 3, 202619 MIN

Description

Chasing that feeling of football and home, Rune stumbles into the story of the Homeless World Cup, and the people for whom that feeling isn't a memory, but a lived reality. In this episode, Rune meets Kuda, who arrived in Australia in 2008 to play in the Homeless World Cup and never left. A career-ending injury and a childhood without parents back in Zimbabwe could have been the end of his story, instead, a stranger asked him a simple question, "Do you want to join us and play in Australia?”, and football became a path for finding a new home. Rune also drops in on a Big Issue’s Community Street Soccer program, the backbone of the Homeless World Cup, where players and coaches describe two hours a week that feel less like sport and more like family. As one coach puts it, everyone walks away feeling like they've scored a goal, whether they kicked the ball or not. Is football coming home? Maybe it never left.