People living in poverty near Soccer City stadium outside Johannesburg battle police during anti-World Cup protests. Local residents demand houses rather than world-class stadiums.
Recommended reading: Ashwin Desai's The Poors and this article.

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London is one of the greatest cities in the world but the level of homelessness you see out on the streets is really sad. This poor woman has to wear clogs and sport socks for goodness' sake.

Oh, no wait. This isn't a down-and-out lady dealing valiantly with destitution, poverty and strife: it's Nicola McLean* on an "off day", waiting to catch a taxi after getting her hair done at Inanch salon in London.

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London is one of the greatest cities in the world but the level of homelessness you see out on the streets is really sad. This poor woman has to wear clogs and sport socks for goodness' sake.

Oh, no wait. This isn't a down-and-out lady dealing valiantly with destitution, poverty and strife: it's Nicola McLean* on an "off day", waiting to catch a taxi after getting her hair done at Inanch salon in London.

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You might have noticed a new advert at the bottom of the page. It's for the Homeless World Cup which kicks off in a couple of weeks in Milan. 48 teams of homeless people from around the world will travel to Italy.Milan is the seventh tournament and the event has grown and grown since it sprang to life in Graz in 2003. Click to continue reading...

Between training for preseason, attending events with the club, working on his recovery and everything else; Rafa Marquez is still finding the time during the team's stay in the States for his charity work. The Fundació de Rafa Márquez, in collaboration with the Fundació FC Barcelona and the International Community Foundation, will be working to provide child care centers in the United States, seeking to improve the educational and health status of children living in poverty. Click to continue reading...

Ronald Gordo returns with another well written piece this week looking at another of Inter's greats' Valdomiro.
The awkward coal miner
I usually say I do not like football. I like Internacional.
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FFA Tech Director Han Berger had a chat with me last night about the new technical development plan put out or about to be by the FFA.
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Kick It To Malaria in MN
A Malaria No More Fundraising Event

Please join us in celebrating World Malaria Day (April 25th) by playing soccer kicking it to malaria and raising funds for bed nets to help with malaria prevention.

We will get together at 7201 West 83rd Street in Bloomington, MN on Saturday April 25th from 11am-1pm to play some soccer and learn about malaria and how we can help.

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Kick It To Malaria in MN
A Malaria No More Fundraising Event

Please join us in celebrating World Malaria Day (April 25th) by playing soccer kicking it to malaria and raising funds for bed nets to help with malaria prevention.

We will get together at 7201 West 83rd Street in Bloomington, MN on Saturday April 25th from 11am-1pm to play some soccer and learn about malaria and how we can help.

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Marcos Senna will be the key to Villarreal's victory hopes, even more so after Santi Carzola's injury and the naturalised Spaniard is finally receiving the credit he deserves.
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The 50,000 strong population of Villarreal can fit in to the Emirates with room to spare and when the two clubs meet tonight, almost half will fill 'El Mardigal' lending to it's intimate atmosphere.

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Yesterday I was fortunate enough to blunder across International Blog Action Day via Catherine Bray (Many thanks Catherine). From there I quickly embarked on an article for the HitSearch internet news feed publicising the day. During the course of that I got in touch with Stuart Fowkes, online press officer for Oxfam. Click to continue reading...

Samantha Harris from Stock - one of tonight's finalists
The final of Miss Essex FM takes place tonight (Thursday) at the Festival Leisure Park in Basildon. longpier.com reluctantly agreed to give up 3-hours of telly watching to see 24 lovelies from across the county battle it out at Liquid & Envy nightclub in Bas Vegas. Click to continue reading...

The fashion experts in the soccer world aren't impressed with the hairshirt Cristiano Ronaldo has donned as he agitates to move away from Manchester United.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter knitted that hairshirt with his "modern-day slavery" comparison, which Ives Galarcep calls "essentially putting his foot in his mouth for about the 20,000th time during his reign as FIFA president.

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Spain's National Team captain, Iker Casillas, has been in central Peru for the past few days working for a charity to bring social awareness for children living in poverty. Casillas played a friendly round of soccer with the children of Cuzco (near Machu Picchu). You can visit the charity organization at Ong Plan International. Click to continue reading...

From The Independent:
He terrorised Premier League defenders for over a decade, now he has a different challenge to face – but none of it is as important to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as building schools in Africa.
After officially retiring from a knee injury 10 months ago, Solskjaer has now been given the job of reserve team manager at Manchester United by Sir Alex Ferguson.

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A friendly game of ex & current football stars along with celebraties, including Michael Schumacher & Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia, joined together to divide up in two teams Captained by... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...