Street Football World Cup 2006
The first street soccer world championship 2006 (officially streetfootballworld festival 06 ) took place from July 2nd to 8th, 2006 in Germany, at Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The sponsorship of the project, which was funded by the German government and presented on May 28, 2005, was the then national soccer coach Jürgen Klinsmann, founder of the youth soccer foundation.
background
The 2006 Street Football World Cup was an official part of the arts and culture program of the 2006 FIFA World Cup . The organizer was streetfootballworld , a worldwide network for street football. At that time, the network included around 80 projects that wanted to give young people a chance to integrate into society instead of being a lone wolf through street football and the values practiced there such as tolerance, fairness and team spirit. The network was funded in 2006 by the Federal Youth Ministry, among others .
A total of 22 teams from five continents competed. The players, young street footballers aged 16 to 21, played for the Copa Andrés Escobar , named after the Colombian footballer who was shot after his own goal at the 1994 World Cup .
The special thing about this tournament was that there were no fixed rules. In the preliminary and intermediate rounds, for example, the playing times were twelve minutes, and later 20 minutes. Furthermore, the rules were redefined between the two playing teams before each game. Since there were no referees, violations of the rules among the players were resolved themselves. It was important that the fair play principle was adhered to.
Parallel to the games, a culture festival with films and photo exhibitions on football culture in various countries was held on Mariannenplatz. On July 2nd, the film The Street and the Ball by Grimme Prize winner Ciro Cappellari had its world premiere there.
Attendees
The following teams took part:
Group A:
- fx United (host; Berlin, Germany )
- Sokak Ligi ( Turkey )
- SASI Barka ( Poland )
- Peres Center for Peace ( Israel and Palestine )
- Street League ( England )
- Streetfootball Norway ( Norway )
Group B:
- Centro para el Desarrollo de la Inteligencia (CDI) ( Paraguay )
- Football Friends ( Balkan Region )
- Soccer in the Streets ( USA )
- Vive Fútbol ( Costa Rica )
- Fútbol por la Paz ( Colombia )
- Escuelas Deporte y Vida ( Peru )
Group C:
- Street football for tolerance (Germany)
- KickAIDS ( South Africa )
- Learn & Play: Street Football Future ( Afghanistan )
- Diambars ( Senegal )
- MYSA ( Kenya )
Group D:
- CHIGOL ( Chile )
- Centro Cultural San Isidro ( Bolivia )
- Defensores del Chaco ( Argentina )
- Football pour la Paix ( Rwanda )
- Fundaçao Eprocad / Jovem Cidadão ( Brazil )
The first street soccer world champion was the selection from Kenya after a penalty shoot-out in the final against South Africa. Africa was the dominant continent because all African teams made it to the quarter-finals.
Visa problems with African players
Originally 24 teams were supposed to take part, but in the run-up to the tournament there were discussions about the teams from Ghana ( Play Soccer ) and Nigeria ( Search & Groom ), whose players did not receive a visa to stay in Germany. a. as in several cases the authenticity of the documents presented by the players was questioned. Both teams were deleted from the schedule without replacement. The work of the organizations from Nigeria and Ghana was presented in the resulting breaks.
Web links
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- ↑ Plenary minutes of a Bundestag question time on July 28, 2006 (PDF; 983 kB) pp. 3916–3919