The World Cup pits the best national football teams against each other.
But a parallel tournament in South Africa has assembled teams representing the game's power to bring about social change.
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports on the combined Israeli - Palestinian Peace team, playing in a tournament called "Football for Hope".
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