I work in supported housing in Oldham, Lancs and am happy to report that one of our service users has been selected for the squad to represent England (despite the fact that he is actually Portuguese) at the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne later this year.
We may yet have a second service user (again of Portuguese origin) in the squad but will not know for a few more weeks.

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nice event! I saw it a couple of years back in Graz, when austria was represented by a squad of asylum seekers. That was great enough, but if I remember correctly, by doing that, they somehow exploited a grey-area in the austrian legislation that says that as soon as you participate in (or win - cause that is what they did) an official international competition for austria you can basically claim citizenship... hehe...
Couldn't find a link though....

Shakers,
Wish them all the best and I hope they have a time in Melbourne,it's a great city for sport.....

weosdfl34 wrote:

The Divisional Personnel Tar (DPO), Maurice Jacob, who Only registered users can see links on this forum! Register or Login on forum! took them to the regulator, according to Mrs Nonye Onyema, had proceed out from the staff of the Escritoire to the Tell Regime (SSG) with a N250,000.00 draft, which he declared as rectification.

Haven't got a clue what you're on about pal!

As a footnote to my original post, we only have the one service user (who I'm now happy to report, is no longer homeless and his is own tenancy with Oldham MBC), that made the final squad.
One of my colleagues managed to blag his way over though - jammy bugger!