Doha: India’s presence in the World Cup arena is a distant dream today. India is instead in the men’s and women’s categories in the Street Children’s World Cup, which kicks off tomorrow in Qatar. A total of 28 teams from 25 countries are competing.
In 2010, before the World Cup in South Africa, Panturul also started a new championship giving street children the chance to become champions. The idea of the World Cup was born under the leadership of John Roe, which was started under the leadership of “Street Child United” to convince children that childhood on the street is not the end of life. Organized by the host city prior to each FIFA World Cup, the fair attracts guests from all over the world. India was there for the first World Cup.
While no big titles have been made in football today, it was the Indian boys who came back from Durban with the crown. Punjab’s Roorka Kalan Youth Football Club represented India that day and returned with the title. After being selected as SCWC’s nodal agency in India, their team began playing in the Street World Cup. The mission of the Roorka Cullens Club is to integrate street and disadvantaged children with excellent training and education. Subsequently, the team played in Brazil and Russia.
Chennai female photo
Sandhya and her friends hail from Karunalaya, Chennai, which has become a refuge for children thrown into the streets, including women and children. Karunalaya is notable for finding children who dropped out of education due to poverty and entered the world of work and placed them in the mainstream. The movement to rehabilitate them with studies and sport had fielded the Indian team in football in Brazil and Russia and in cricket in England. Her continuation is now reaching Qatar.
Indian girls team competing in the street children world cup
Our goal is to increase the confidence of children through sport. It conveys the message that anything in the world can be achieved through success. Children can dream more and reach higher ‘- these are the words of Karunalaya secretary Paul Sunder Singh before the team left for Doha.
Teams
Qatar, Burundi, Pakistan, Sudan, Bosnia, Tanzania, India, Egypt, England, Brazil, Uganda, Nepal, Mauritius, Hungary, Forum Syria, Bolivia, Indonesia, Philippines, Colombia, Palestine, Zimbabwe, Peru, Bangladesh, Mexico, United States. In addition, a team of refugees, one of which is Hungarian, and a Palestinian women’s team participate.
