World Cup 2010
Posts related to the work Grassroot Soccer is doing to utilize the 2010 World Cup to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and beyond.
Football For Hope Centre Opens Its Doors To Khayelitsha And The World
On Saturday, December 5, a day after the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final Draw, the eyes of the global soccer community were on the opening of the world’s first Football for Hope Centre, in Khayelitsha, South Africa, the culmination of a yearlong collaboration involving the Football for Hope movement, Grassroot Soccer, the Khayelitsha Development Forum, [...]
Progress Continues On The Football For Hope Centre in Khayelitsha
The ‘Football For Hope’ Centre in the South African township of Khayelitsha is under construction and making big strides towards completion.
The centre is part of FIFA’s official campaign of the FIFA World Cup™, ‘20 Centres for 2010’, which aims to create twenty Football for Hope Centres across Africa. The centres will offer not only football [...]
Grassroot Soccer Featured in CNN.com Video About FIFA’s 2010 World Cup Legacy
In a video that originally aired in June of 2009, CNN’s Nkepile Mabuse reports on FIFA’s desire to leave a legacy in South Africa that will last far beyond the 2010 World Cup. Keep an eye out for Grassroot Soccer shirts, we’re a partner in the Football For Hope movement and the Skillz Curriculum is [...]
Ticket Fund Bringing Ticket Dreams Closer To Reality For GRS Participants
Source: Fifa.com
Developed from plans announced by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter at the Preliminary Draw in Durban in November 2007, the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Ticket Fund was formally unveiled by FIFA and the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa today (14 August 2009), exactly 300 days before the opening game.
In total, 120,000 [...]
Women’s Day Brings Girls Together
Source: FIFA.com
As South Africa prepares to celebrate National Woman’s Day on 9 August, the voices of girl power could already be heard this afternoon at the Ncomu Road Urban Park in Khayelitsha as a girls-only football tournament took place in front of the construction site of the first of 20 Football for Hope community centres [...]