Thursday, June 28, 2007

Worlds United By Soccer

What happens when you take 11 Washington DC area girls between ages 14 and 16, supremely confident and skilled on the soccer field and less confident talking about death, HIV/AIDS and sexuality, and taken them on a trip to South Africa to meet with girls their own age who are less confident on the soccer field and more comfortable with their own sexuality and HIV/AIDS and death. The Wahsington Post has a blog called Worlds United that is telling the story from the first person accounts of the players.

This is what I love about soccer--it is universal and provides a wonderful means of exploring the world.

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