Tottenham to sponsor slum children`s visit to Italy

Mumbai: English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur are to sponsor an Indian children`s football team in a unique global competition for slum children in Italy later this month. The Spurs, in partnership with social welfare organisation Krida Vikas Sanstha, Nagpur (KSVN), would help a team of disadvantaged boys and girls take part in the "Homeless World Cup" in Milan from September 6-13, a media release said today. KSVN runs football programmes in Maharashtra to inspire and educate the most disadvantaged members of society, including the homeless and slum dwellers, many of whom were addicted to drugs or alcohol and involved in petty crimes or violence, the release added. Bureau Report