Homeless footballers star at "World Cup in South Africa
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Many of the footballers representing  their countries in an international tournament in South Africa  this week were remarkably gaunt, sallow-looking and groomed  haphazardly.
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Players from around the globe gather in Buenos Aires to compete in the 17th gay football World Cup.
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The World Cup is soccer&#039;s greatest spectacle. It&#039;s also a monthlong grind, and the fatigue is starting to show.
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Sport: Rugby union: Reshuffled side to be led by World Cup winner agaainst South Africa tomorrow.
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Scotland&#39;s World Cup qualification campaign began disappointingly as they were held to a goalless Hampden Park draw by Slovenia.
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Many of the footballers representing   their countries in an international tournament in South Africa   this week were remarkably gaunt, sallow-looking and groomed   haphazardly.
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Julien Pretot, 31, is a Paris-based sports reporter since 2001. Both paired up for the African Nations Cup in Ghana. Siphiwe Sibeko, 35, is mostly a self taught photographer who was born and grew up in Soweto township, South Africa. After working for some leading South African newspapers as a senior photographer, he joined Reuters in 2005. In the following story, Julien describes the women construction workers he and Siphiew befriended as they passed them on their way to the Essipon stadium in S
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Nine National Basketball Association players will lead a delegation to South Africa this week to help build and dedicate new facilities to provide homes and health care in poorer regions of the nation.
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The tournament is still four years away but South Africans are already worrying about the morning-after effect from the football World Cup and the size of the tab they will have to pick up.
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The UN-sponsored &#39;Match against Poverty&#39; featured Real Madrid stars Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane -- which made the amateur F1-driving German, although proficient, a bit &#39;self conscious.
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Stars including Bono, Travis and Jamelia are supporting the year-long Make Poverty History campaign.
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South Africa have been forced to leave striker Shaun Bartlett out of their squad for next weekend&#39;s World Cup qualifier against DR Congo because of an ankle injury.
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In a Sept. 24 story about a Homeless World Cup soccer tournament, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Adam Banda, who played on the British team, was recovering from substance abuse. Banda says he was never a substance abuser.
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THE World Cup Finals are more than a year away, but disappointment is already taking hold.
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The International Rugby Board today confirmed that three countries have expressed an interest in hosting the 2011 World Cup. New Zealand, South Africa and Japan are leading the race to host rugby union&#39;s global spectacular in seven years&#39; time.
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A youthful and relatively inexperienced South Africa trounced a star-studded World XV 32-7 at a miserably cold, wet and blustery Walkers stadium.
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The first World Cup to be hosted in Africa will provide an unparalleled business opportunity in four years time, organisers of South Africa 2010 said here at a presentation of their wares.