Birlinn Goal - The Story Of The Homeless World Cup

The Homeless World Cup was conceived during a discussion in a beach bar in in Cape Town in 2001 betw

Birlinn Goal - The Story Of The Homeless World Cup

The Homeless World Cup was conceived during a discussion in a beach bar in in Cape Town in 2001 between Mel Young and Harold Schmied. They were discussing how they could benefit the homeless street paper sellers from their international work. Eventually realising that football was an international language, they decided to set up a football tournament...The first Homeless World Cup took place in Graz, Austria, in April 2003, and it was such a phenomenal success that the organisers agreed to make

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