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Homeless World Cup 2003, Graz. Austria / Schedule
All 18 teams will play every day about two times until
the final day. All places will be played out.
Qualifying: the first two teams of groups with 4 teams,
and the first three teams of groups with 5 teams enter
intermediate level A, the other 8 teams intermediate
level B.
Each intermediate level is split in two groups (5/5 in
level A, 4/4 in level B).
The best teams in both groups of level A play the final,
the second best teams in both groups of level A play for
place 3 and 4. And so on until place 18.
The final day (saturday or sunday in case of bad weather)
will start with the match for place 17/18 and end with
the final match for place 1/2.
Match reports
During the tournament fresh news about the Worldcup will
be presented on a daily basis - all match results,
selected game reports and a picture gallery with a
downloadsection.
The webcam transmits all games from the MEGAPHON
centercourt, mainsquare, Graz.
• Saturday, July 05: arrival/training
• Sunday, July 06: training / kick off event: official
opening with public drawing of the games and live
concerts at the centercourt at 7:00 p.m.
• Monday, July 07: qualifying round 1st day
• Tuesday, July 08: qualifying round 2nd
• Wednesday, July 09: qualifying round 3rd
• Thursday, July 10: intermediate round 1st day, Match
of legends, 19:00
• Friday, July 11: intermediate round 2nd day
• Saturday, July 12: final/placement-round (shifted to
sunday in case of bad weather)
• Sunday, July 13: extra day
• Monday, July 14: departure
Qualifying
pre-session: 17:00 - 19:30
MEGAPHON centercourt + court A
night-session:20:00 - 21:30
MEGAPHONcentercourt
Intermediate round
pre-session: 18:00 - 19:30
MEGAPHON centercourt + court A
night-session: 20:00 - 21:30
MEGAPHON centercourt
All
matches will be accompanied with live music:
samba, flamenco and more worldmusic played by
streetmusicians and other music afficionados
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Scheme of matches
18 teams
The drawing of groups takes place at the opening
ceremony, sunday 06.07., 19:00, MEGAPHON centercourt
mainsquare, Graz
The winning team gets 3 points. The loosing team zero.
If a match ends due, it is decided by penalty shootout
until one team leads with one goal difference.
In this case the winning team gets three points and the
loosing team gets one point.
Qualifying
2 groups with 4 teams (A,C)
Matches and return matches
2 groups with 5 teams (B,D)
Intermediate round:
Scheme
A:
2 groups (1,2) with 5 teams (due to placements
in the qualifying):
1st and 2nd team of groups A, C
1st, 2nd and 3rd team of groups B, D
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Scheme
B:
2 groups (3,4) with 4 teams (due to placements
in the qualifying):
3rd and 4th team of groups A, C
4th and 5th team of groups B, D |
Matches
Final. The first places of groups 1,2 in scheme A play
for the title.
The second places of groups 1,2 in scheme A play for the
3rd place.
All other places will be played out in matches composed
by the same method to the placements of teams in the
intermediate groups.
Team Poland
Olaf
Lubaszenko? Doesn’t ring a bell? The well-known Polish
actor was one of many celebrities from television,
politics and sports who competed against homeless teams
in a public street soccer tournament in Warsaw to raise
funds for the Polish Homeless World Cup team. Previously,
Rybnik of Lódz, trained by the “Brother St. Albert”
church organisation, were able to win the hotly
contested Polish qualifying round. Their coach, Tadeusz,
then came up with the idea of the celebrity tournament.
“Spectacular events just plain deliver the goods,” he
commented dryly. And Adam, a player for Rybnik, had some
scintillating moments: first the victory in the match
against the actors’ team with Olaf Lubaszenko, and then
a no less memorable contest with a team from the Warsaw
police. “I’ve had to outrun a few policemen in my time,
but never before on the soccer field!”
The Homeless World Cup
took for the first time place 2003 in Graz, Austria. The
participating teams in this special championship were
formed by homeless persons or by persons making their
income on selling streetpapers from all over the world.
The Homeless World Cup is an international pilot-project
that uses the positive power of soccer for raising the
profile of the issue of homelessness and poverty
worldwide. Social integration through sport like having
been practised by the English streetleague for a couple
of years has become a successful strategy in many
countries. The unifying passion for soccer has a unique
ability to shift social borders. Being backed by job-,
housing- and integration programmes thus sport itself
becomes the means to create new chances for persons in
crisis situations.
Kick off homelessness! Viva el
futbol!
Participants
18 Teams à 10
persons (8 players, 2 staff) from Brazil, Denmark,
Germany, England, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Austria,
Poland, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia,
Spain, South Africa, USA, Wales. |