The South Korean street soccer team in training. Photo courtesy of 

With the 2023 Homeless World Cup set to take place in Sacramento, California from 8 to 15 July, INSP is celebrating the crossover between street soccer and street papers. Street papers in seven countries – Argentina, Australia, Greece, Japan, Portugal, South Korea and Switzerland – either have street soccer projects connected to them, or work under the same parent organisation. In some cases, a street paper was borne out of a street soccer team, or vice versa. Let’s learn more.

How street papers and street soccer go together at the 2023 Homeless World Cup in Sacramento

 vendor Mr. Ueda. Credit: Yoshihiro Kinoshita

Mr Ueda started selling The Big Issue Japan at the age of 54 after feeling the sudden deterioration of his body and quitting his job as a system engineer. He says he finds it mind-boggling that, just by standing in front of Osaka’s JR Ibaraki Station, he is able to meet so many different people that he had never interacted with before and now finds the fun in the experience.

Street paper vendor Mr Ueda: “I found my ‘temple’ – The Big Issue Japan. It felt like my reason to live again”

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