Homeless World Cup is soccer therapy for the forgotten

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) — Many of the soccer players representing their countries in an international tournament in South Africa this week were remarkably gaunt, sallow-looking and groomed haphazardly.

They looked, in fact, as if they had spent the past few years living on the streets. Indeed, that is where these improbable athletes had been spending much of their time before arriving at the Homeless World Cup in Cape Town.