MONTREAL — Fabrice Mugabe passes the ball beyond the opposition defender to Jean-Philippe Duré, who strikes it into the gloves of the goalkeeper, an intervention worker at the Montreal homeless shelter where both men are staying.
MONTREAL — Fabrice Mugabe passes the ball beyond the opposition defender to Jean-Philippe Duré, who strikes it into the gloves of the goalkeeper, an intervention worker at the Montreal homeless shelter where both men are staying.
“I'm tapping into something I haven't tapped into in a long time,” he said, relishing his shot to potentially suit up for Canada. After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Mugabe lost not only his job at a warehouse, but also the roof over his head. “I kind of went through a rough patch like everybody else, and without work I didn't really have anywhere to go,” he said. But with the help of Maison du Père, a men's homeless shelter in Montreal, Mugabe has a new job and is putting money aside so he can move into an apartment.
Humphreys said he had expected about seven players on Wednesday, but only two unhoused men turned up. The day's frigid temperatures made it difficult for participants to travel, he said, adding that a truck belonging to Old Brewery Mission, one of the other Montreal shelters involved in the program, had a flat tire and couldn't transport players.
Hossam Khedr, Canadian Street Soccer Association CEO, said a total of eight players will be recruited for a mixed men and women’s team. For now, the association is recruiting in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, but it plans to expand the program to Canada’s other provinces for future Homeless World Cup tournaments.
Ed Kiwanuka-Quinlan, the street soccer association's director of operations in Ontario, said participating in soccer was a lifeline to him when he found himself homeless over a decade ago in Brampton, Ont. Unable to deal with his mother’s death and trauma from the Ugandan civil war, he became depressed and tried to take his own life.
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