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Street Child United Brings English Footballers to Rio Favela

By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Dwight Yorke and Quinton Fortune of the Manchester United football (soccer) club were in the Zona Norte (North Zone) of Rio last weekend to spend time training with youths in the favela community of Chatuba in Complexo da Penha. The event was held at the Caracol pitch in partnership between the UPP (Police Pacification Unit), the NGO Child Street United and Manchester United club.

The open training session was held for about seventy children from Chatuba community, and as hosts of the match, the former idols of the English team Yorke . . .

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