When football finds a home
JUL 3, 202619 MIN
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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.


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