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From Homeless Shelters to Playing for Team Canada at The Homeless World Cup | Michael Fredson
Sport has a way of giving people something to hold onto. Michael Fredson is helping build an entire organization around that idea.
Michael is the owner of Manticore Books in Orillia and Chair of the Board of the Canadian Street Soccer Association, Canada's partner organization for the Homeless World Cup. In this conversation, he breaks down what it actually looks like to use soccer as a social tool, what the Homeless World Cup is and why it's unlike any other sporting event in the world, and what happened when Team Canada went to Oslo. The stories from that trip alone are worth the listen…
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