Homeless to Hero: Chile Shocks Mexico to Take Homeless World Cup 2012 Lewis Willing - HomelessWorldCup.org
go to original October 15, 2012

The Homeless World Cup reached its climax Sunday and Mexico almost completed an historic double. In the final, Chile won a thrilling encounter 8-5 in front of thousands of passionate Mexican fans. This denied the hosts a second victory after the Mexican women’s team had earlier defeated their Brazilian rivals 6-2.
 
Speaking after the final, President of the Homeless World Cup, Mel Young, said: “Mexico City has staged a fantastic fiesta of football. They have organised a spectacular sporting event, attracting crowds of almost 200,000 people over the week and a global audience watching live via Internet TV. Most importantly they have helped to raise the profile of homeless people by putting the most marginalised people centre stage and drawing the world’s attention to the disgrace of homelessness.
 
“There are one hundred million homeless people in the world today and one homeless person is one too many,” he added.
 
“Football has the power to transforms lives and the best result this week was not on the pitch, but how the players took the next step to move forward in their lives and inspire other homeless people to do the same.”
 
Final results:
 
Homeless World Cup Final: Chile 8 – 5 Mexico

Women’s Homeless World Cup Final: Mexico 6 – 2 Brazil

Fundación Telmex Cup Final: Namibia 7 – 4 Haiti

Mexico City Cup Final: Romania 4 - 3 Netherlands

De la Calle a la Cancha Cup Fina: Peru 6 – 5 Wales

Community Cup Final: Guatemala 5 – 4 France

INSP Trophy Final:  Finland 9 – 2 Sweden

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