Playing for peace

Combined Israeli and Palestinian football team hopes to show game’s power to bring change.

Israeli-Palestinian Peace Football team

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”. 

Source: Al Jazeera

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