INVITATION TO RIO-2010 HOMELESS WORLD CUP GRAND
FINALS SELECTION TOURNAMENT (THE ROAD TO BRAZIL)

Kenya Homeless Street Soccer Association (KHSSA) is glad to take this opportunity to invite you and member your organization to the grand finals of our selection tournament for Kenya national street soccer team to the Homeless World Cup 2010 in Rio, Brazil from 19th -26th of September, 2010 at the Jericho Sports Ground on the 20th June, 2010 from 10am to 2pm.

Street soccer is a relatively new sporting phenomenon worldwide. It is a smaller version of the regular football played by four players each side in an 18 meter by 26-meter pitch enclosed by a 1-meter wall. The game is played in two halves of seven minutes each with one minute rest. This makes the game more popular in urban poor neighborhoods since it requires less space, is much cheaper yet it encourages so much social contact. In fact this game is increasingly becoming a forum for addressing social issues more than it is for sporting competition. This is why the central agenda of the Homeless World Cup International (HWCI), a FIFA replica for street soccer, is to promote social integration through sports and to create inventive strategies in fighting homelessness and poverty worldwide. Since 2003, the HWCI has been organizing Homeless World Cups (HWC) annually. The HWC has already been hosted by the Cities of Graz, Austria 2003, Gothenburg, Sweden 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland 2005, Cape Town, South Africa 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007, Melbourne, Australia 2008, Milano, Italy 2009 and the city of Rio, Brazil will host the 2010 world cup while Paris, France will host 2011. We hope Nairobi, Kenya will bid for 2012 and beyond HWC.
Your presence and moral support will be highly appreciated.

Yours,

Mohamed Ahmed Alex Mwangi
President, KHSSA Technical Director, KHSSA