Sport for development
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Against the odds, Deka excels in football
NEW YORK, 19 October 2004 – In the tiny East African nation of Djibouti, almost every boy plays football. It is very unusual to find a young girl
who avidly plays football. Deka, who started playing football at the age of three, is one such girl.
Young champion to carry Olympic flame in Moscow
MOSCOW, 3 July 2004 – Sergei Pavlov, 16, today becomes the second of the three torchbearers selected by UNICEF to participate in the global Athens 2004 Olympic Torch Relay, as the Relay visits Moscow.
When soccer helps a girl from a poor suburb of Djibouti City
Hayablé (Balbala) – Southern suburb of Djibouti’s capital city, June 2004- Born into a family of 9
siblings, Fatouma Osman is 23 years old. She is one of the few girls in her neighborhood who are into sports in general, soccer in particular. She says that it is thanks to soccer that she can withstand financial difficulties and poverty.
