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The Football for Hope Festival 2010 brings together 32 teams of young people from disadvantaged communities around the world in Alexandra-Johannesburg. For the first time, the social dimension of the game is celebrated as an official element of the FIFA World Cup. |
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2009
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Dec.
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The Football for Hope Centre Kick Off celebrates the inauguration of the first Football for Hope Centre in the Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Aug.
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streetfootballworld holds Sommerfest, a summer party and beach football tournament. The two fairest players are sent to play in a Sony football match in Venice.
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June
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streetfootballworld and FIFA bring key players in the field of Development through Football together for the first time at the Football for Hope Forum.
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Foča 09 continues the success of Foča 08 as teams gather for the second European Street Football Tournament |
Apr.
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streetfootballworld partners with Sony Europe to bring Sony employees into streetfootballworld network member organisations to share their expertise in areas such as marketing and communications
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2008
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Dec.
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The Football for Hope Festival South America 2008 kicks off as an official element of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2008
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Nov.
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Germany - Land of Ideas names streetfootballworld one of its 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas
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Nov.
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Relaunch of www.streetfootballworld.org. The new site sees improvements in the presentation and accessibility of information regarding streetfootballworld network members
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Aug.
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Germany's first Street Football Festival takes place in Nuremberg with 16 teams coming together for a successful tournament based on Fair Play ideals
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Aug.
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Grand finale of EUROSCHOOLS 2008, the EUROSCHOOLS Youth Camp
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July
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The Football for Hope Monitoring & Evaluating (M&E) Workshop is held in Cape Town, South Africa to kick off the development of the system, an element of Football for Hope
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July
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Launch of the provisional set of statutes for the streetfootballworld Network
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May
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Foča 08, the first European Street Football Festival, takes place in Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Twenty-four teams (12 from the Balkans and 12 from the rest of Europe) unite for the tournament
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2007
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The official campaign for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ is launched at the World Cup Qualification Group Draw in Durban
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Nov.
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The second Encuentro Sudamericano de Fútbol Callejero (South American Street Football Encounter), organised by the Red Sudamericana de Fútbol Callejero, is held in Asunción, Paraguay
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Sept.
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Network members are invited to apply for funding within the second Football for Hope Call for Proposals
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June
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Kick-off of EUROSCHOOLS 2008, the official schools project to mark the UEFA EURO 2008 in Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
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Apr.
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$US 900,000 is distributed among 25 streetfootballworld Network members following the first Football for Hope Call for Proposals
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Mar.
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The Football for Hope Movement, the key element of the strategic alliance between FIFA and streetfootballworld, is launched
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2006
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Nov.
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Publication of "the streetfootballworld", vol.04, documenting the story of the streetfootballworld festival 06
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July
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The streetfootballworld festival 06 is awarded the FIFA Fair Play Trophy
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July
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The streetfootballworld festival 06 is held during the final week of the FIFA World Cup in Berlin, Germany
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June
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The finals of World Cup Schools – Fair Play for Fair Life take place in Potsdam, Germany
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May
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Managing Director Jürgen Griesbeck and streetfootballworld are recognised with the Laureus Sport For Good Award
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Apr.
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FIFA and streetfootballworld organise their first collaborative meeting in the field of Development through Football
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2005
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Dec.
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FIFA and streetfootballworld establish a strategic alliance to promote the field of Development through Football
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Nov.
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The first Encuentro Sudamericano de Fútbol Callejero (South American Street Football Encounter), organised by the Red Sudamericana de Fútbol Callejero, is held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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May
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Publication of “the streetfootballworld“, vol.03, presenting festival 06 to the world
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Apr.
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Network member Street League hosts the second streetfootballworld Network meeting in London, UK
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Feb.
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First meeting of the Red Sudamericana de Fútbol Callejero (South American Street Football Network), the first regional network to form within the streetfootballworld Network
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2004
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Nov.
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World Cup Schools – Fair Play for Fair Life kicks off in 204 schools across Germany, linking football and global learning
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Sept.
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streetfootballworld becomes a non-profit limited company, based in Berlin, Germany
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Apr.
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Publication of "the streetfootballworld", vol.02, continuing the thematic focus of the first edition of the journal
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Apr.
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Re-launch of the internet platform www.streetfootballworld.org, providing network members the opportunity to present their work to the world
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Apr.
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The network is launched! Inaugural meeting of the streetfootballworld Network takes place in Witzenhausen, Germany
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2003
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Apr.
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Publication of "the streetfootballworld", vol.01, the first ever journal on Development through Football and football culture
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2002
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Sept.
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A global study on Development through Football is conducted in cooperation with the International Council for Sports Science and Physical Education
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Aug.
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Launch of www.streetfootballworld.org, the leading internet platform on Development through Football
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Apr.
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streetfootballworld is founded as a project of the German Youth Football Foundation
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2000
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Straßenfußball für Toleranz (Street Football for Tolerance) starts in Brandenburg, Germany, based on the Medellín experience
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1996
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Jürgen Griesbeck develops Fútbol por la Paz (Football for Peace), a project using football to combat violence and drugs on the streets of Medellín, Colombia
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