Homeless World Cup

Fascination Homeless World CupMauricio Bustamante’s

Picturing an extraordinary movement

In 2003, Mel Young, founder of the

Scottish street paper “The big issue“ and

of the “International Network of Street

Papers”, created a unique movement: the

Homeless World Cup (HWC). The HWC

is an annual soccer competition for

homeless people and helps young home-

less all over the world to find a way back

into society.

Mauricio Bustamante, Argentinean

photographer, accompanied the Home-

less World Cup since the first competiti-

on in 2003 with his camera. He’s been

on site at all five locations in Graz,

Gothenburg, Edinburgh, Cape Town and

Copenhagen. Bustamante is the ONE

documentalist of this World Cup, a

blessing for the social side of soccer. His

committed photo-documentaries are

characterized by a close relationship with

the people he portrays in his unique way,

building these people their own photo-

graphical monument. In his work he

connects art and life in an outstanding

manner.Prologue

For the 7th Homeless World Cup 2008 in

Milan, Italy, the last six championships are

depicted in a 40-page magazine (print run of

10.000, DinA4 size, 4/4 color) as a chronolo-

gical photo-series by Mauricio Bustamante.

The collages show all events around the

soccer ball: The matches in the stadiums,

portraits of participants, life at accommodati-

on facilities, the excitement of the audience

and much more. The illustrated book inclu-

des a preface by Alex Ferguson, coach of Man-

chester United, as well as texts about the

history of the HWC, about Mauricio Busta-

mante and his relationship with the HWC as

well as introducing texts to each single cham-

pionship.

Since most players live from selling street

papers, this special magazine is sold by the

players for 3 R per issue during the tourna-

ment in Milan. In addition each team has the

option to acquire a limited number of issues

to sell in their home country. The seller can

keep one Euro himself, one Euro will be

donated to the organization of the HWC and

one Euro goes to the Berlin social project

PLAY!YA, the publisher of this magazine.

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teamThe Project “Fascination Homeless World Cup” is managed

by an experienced team, which have already worked together

in many different line-ups. Their detailed profile:

PLAY!YA

Publisher

> www.playya.org

The association PLAY!YA was founded in

2008 as a social movement and to develop

modern sports. Its focus is not on records,

but rather on “social profit”: How can sports

encourage human development, support cul-

tural diversity and social engagement?

PLAY!YA brings together people and organi-

zations, develops methods, concepts and

events. In June 2008, PLAY!YA organized the

1st Berlin Streetsoccer Day STRASSE!KICKT,

together with 15 other projects and youth ins-

titutions. Part of the event was a photo exhibi-

tion by Mauricio Bustamante, showing soccer

scenes from all over the world.

Simon Schneider

Art Direction, Project Management

> www.sportkultur.net

Born 1971 in Schwabmünchen. Holds a de-

gree in Cultural Work (FH Potsdam, The

Film & Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad

Wolf”). Simon Schneider is an expert on

sports, culture and intercultural dialogue.

After more than 13 years in the cultural indus-

try, he exclusively works in the field of Sports-

Culture since the FIFA World Cup 2002 and

therefore played as mastermind e.g. for “BBC

Sport” or “streetfootball-world”.

Mauricio Bustamante

Photographs, Art Direction

> www.mauriciobustamante.com

Born 1966 in Buenos Aires. Since 1995 he

lives in Hamburg as a freelance photographer.

Among others he worked for “11 Freunde”,

“Spiegel”, “pagina 12”, “Wiener Zeitung”.

Since 2000 he works as editorial photogra-

pher for the Hamburg street paper “Hinz &

Kunzt”. Besides his socially committed cover-

ages which stand out because of their clo-

seness to the people pictured, he organizes

slideshow performances for festivals and other

cultural events together with the group “Mo-

ving pictures” whose founder he is.

Christo Förster

Texts

> www.mundialo.com

Born 1977 in Berlin, he holds a degree in

sports publishing (Deutsche Sporthochschule

Köln). Education at the Berlin School of Jour-

nalism. He wrote about different projects,

focusing on the topic “Sports and Society“

(e.g. “streetfootballworld”, a FIFA World Cup

series for the street paper “motz”, a FIFA

World Cup -Dossier for the magazine “eins

Entwicklungspolitik”, a coverage on illegal

player trading in West Africa). Right now he

works as an editor for the magazine “Fit for

Fun” and a freelance writer.

PLAY!YA

Simon Groscurth, Ian Mengel

Publisher

Stendaler Straße 4 (Hofgebäude)

10559 Berlin, Deutschland

> [email protected]

Tel +49 30 29 04 42 31

Mobile +49 30 179 2 27 58 64

Fax +49 30 44 05 88 59

Simon Schneider

Project Management

> [email protected]

Mobile 49 179 6 76 13 48

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