But at the Homeless World Cup, where all the traditional impediments to success are stripped away, they’re allowed to succeed. The effect is life-changing. “This absolutely works,” Cann said.

The Inaugural Homeless World Cup took place in Graz Austria in July of 2003. Two men, Mel Young, and Harald Schmied were attending an International conference of Street Papers and started ...

The Homeless World Cup Foundation’s own surveys - following players’ progress six months after the final whistle - show more than 90% make positive changes in their lives.

The U.S. will host the men’s FIFA World Cup in 2026, but this weekend it will be the home of another – and arguably more inspiring − soccer tournament: the Homeless World Cup. Mel Young, a social ...

The first Homeless World Cup was held in 2003 in Graz, Austria, and has been hosted by various countries every year since. (The exception being 2020, 2021, and 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.) ...

In the opening match of the 2023 Homeless World Cup, she scored Team USA’s first goal and the first goal of the tournament. Nearly 400 more matches followed, with men’s and women’s teams from Chile ...

The Netflix movie about a Homeless World Cup starring Bill Nighy is out and real players talk about how the tournament changed their lives.

I will be starting my next-to-last trimester of graduate school in December. I have an extremely hard class to take. I also have a thesis to write, jobs to interview for, and a social life that ...

The first Homeless World Cup was held in 2003, and in the past two decades, nearly 70 countries and 1.2 million people have participated. And yet, I suspect, ...

Players representing 29 countries took part in the Homeless World Cup, a tournament that aims to raise awareness about people who are homeless or refugees.

The Netflix movie about a Homeless World Cup starring Bill Nighy is out and real players talk about how the tournament changed their lives.