Unidentified Group: (Foreign language spoken)</s>GIDEON LONG: Meet the players from Kick 4 Life, a football team from Lesotho in Southern Africa. They're making their final preparations before their big match against Moving the Goalposts, a team from Kenya.</s>LYNN NEARY, Host: The tournament's been organized by soccer's global governing body, FIFA, and Street Football World, a not-for-profit organization based in Germany. Jurgen Griesbeck is its managing director.</s>JURGEN GRIESBECK: Unidentified Man #2: (Unintelligible) from the U.K. (unintelligible) a soccer all the way from Cambodia one([h). They're leading on this main stadium featuring the Football World Festival as Victoria...</s>GIDEON LONG: Max Watson is the 17-year-old leader of the U.S. team. He says the idea is to help kids develop social skills that will be useful to them in later life.</s>MAX WATSON: Unidentified Man #3: (Foreign language spoken)</s>GIDEON LONG: Unidentified Man #3: (Speaking in foreign language)</s>LYNN NEARY, Host: That was Gideon Long, reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa.
The World Cup isn't the only soccer extravaganza reaching its climax this weekend. Johannesburg is hosting a kids' soccer invitational called "Football for Hope." It brings together 32 teams of disadvantaged teens from around the world with an emphasis on social change. For example, there's an organization from Cambodia that gets kids playing and then teaches them about the danger of land mines.