Karachi Streets to the Brazil World Cup – Pak Boy Story

Street Boy Pakistan in Brazil World Cup

KARACHI: Sixteen-year-old Mohammad Salman thought he was bound to carry on with his life on the mean streets of Karachi, dependent on drug, asking for survival and with no prospects for a finer future.
Right away he is situated to speak to Pakistan in the second release of the Street Child World Cup which begins in Brazil this week.

"In my past life I was similar to a street urchin, utilizing medications, fleeing from school and studies. I was a junkie," said Salman, who left home at age 13 in the wake of battling with his guardians.

"We didn't realize what we were doing and what we ought to do. I was staying far from home."

Salman's salvation came after he was spotted by the non-benefit Azad Foundation that rehabilitates street youngsters in the sprawling Pakistani city of 18 million.
"They helped create my enthusiasm toward football," he said. "I'm eager to be some piece of the Street Child World Cup."

The Amos Trust, a British non-benefit association, persuaded football's legislating form FIFA to start the Street Child World Cup in 2010.

The principal version was held in South Africa in front of the 2010 World Cup and emphasized Brazil, South Africa, Nicaragua, Ukraine, India, the Philippines, Tanzania and a group from England.
India won the inaugural occasion, which demonstrated so effective that it was chosen to hold it in front of every football World Cup.