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March 15, 2010
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Homeless Soccer

Exercise, friendship, and a bit of fame

by Eve Silberman

posted 2/19/2009

“It takes your mind off your worries,” says a player during a break in a soccer game at World Wide Sports Center. Raul, a soft-spoken twenty-four-year-old, plays regularly with the SSPORT team. It’s made up of men and women of various ages and skill levels whose bond is that that they are, or were recently, homeless.

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