About The Street Child World Cup: Follow the boys chosen to play football for Brazil (Full documentary)
Dario, Pedro, Vinicius, Alexandre, Rodrigo and Mauricio all have three things in common; They´ve all lived and worked on the streets, they´ve all lived in an orphanage and now they are all training for a football tournament to represent Brazil against other street children from all over the world. Aged between14-17, the children will be given the platform to be Ambassadors and examples of what can be achieved when street children are given their rights. The Brazil boys all come from the Crianca não é da rua project in the north of Brazil, an institute to help get children off the street, educated, housed and ready for work. Their journey starts in Fortaleza (also a host-city for the FIFA World Cup). This is the first time any of them have been to Rio, on a plane, or taken part in a tournament. Even though the boys have left street life behind, street life has not left some of the boys; unfortunately two weeks before the tournament starts the team captain Rodrigo Kelton is gunned down in a revenge killing by
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- The Street Child World Cup: Follow the boys chosen to play football for Brazil (Full documentary)
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