GOAL STREAM STREET CHILD WORLD CUP
Global football website, Goal will live stream the Street Child World Cup: The Future Depends On You Moscow 2018 – an international football tournament hosted in Moscow and focused on changing the negative perception and treatment of street-connected children. The tournament kicked off on Friday, May 11th.
By drawing a global audience to their events, Street Child United (SCU) allows the children and charities that take part to campaign to governments, high-level organisations and their communities to change the way street-connected young people are seen and treated.
The event, which has been organised by SCU in partnership with Russian telecommunications company Megafon and in association with Save the Children, will feature two hundred street-connected young people from 21 countries across the world and will contribute to an international football tournament, a festival of arts and a Congress for their rights.
Goal will stream the competition through Facebook, where it has in excess of 40m fans. The highlight of the tournament with be the boys’ and girls’ finals which will be played at the Russian Premier League champion’s, FC Lokomotiv Moscow’s, Sapsan Arena. As well as covering finals, Goal will stream the opening ceremony and a friendly match between the girl’s teams from Russia and Brazil, before moving on to the knockout stages of the tournament and sharing highlights from the opening rounds.
James Dickens, Goal’s global editor-in-chief said: “Street Child World Cup: The Future Depends On You Moscow 2018 will be a great event and we’re happy we can amplify the voices of the world’s street children to our global audience through the medium of football.
“We plan to cover the event much like we do with other global competitions, applying the same graphical and editorial treatments we do when covering the biggest players and competitions – in turn, helping to make the children feel like the stars they idolise.”
David Lyons, marketing and communications manager for Street Child United said: “The Street Child World Cup: The Future Depends On You Moscow 2018 will feature street-connected children from across the world, including England, Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico and many more. A key aim for the event is to create a global platform for the young people taking part, and having the event covered by Goal will help us reach millions more people. Goal’s global fan base and treatment of the event, before during and after, will allow the young people taking part to be stars back home as well as on the pitches in Russia.”
Goal will return to Russia after Street Child World Cup: The Future Depends On You Moscow 2018, when it covers the FIFA World Cup. During the tournament, 23 members of staff will be in Russia, with correspondents in each host city and local teams back home providing extensive coverage.
Street Child United (SCU) is a UK charity using the power of sport, specifically international sports events, to change the negative perceptions and treatment of street-connected children everywhere. The charity organises international events where street-connected young people take part in sports tournaments, an arts festival and a congress on their human rights. Previous SCU events: Street Child World Cup Durban 2010, Street Child World Cup Rio de Janeiro 2014, Street Child Games Rio de Janeiro 2016.