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No grass, no shoes, pure pleasure: Football in rural Africa

19-11-2013 12:04 PM


Ammon News - (CNN) - A boy takes a condom.
He inflates it slowly, each breath meticulously measured as the creation begins to take shape.

He takes some plastic and carefully wraps it around the condom, ensuring it can't be punctured before using pieces of shredded tire and an old rope to tie around the oddly shaped sphere.

This is football rural African style.

No grass, no shoes, just a machete knife on hand to chisel out the thorns which get stuck in the players' feet.

Welcome to Chicome a small village in Mozambique, located 150 kilometers off the beaten track and an eight-hour drive through the bush
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Chicome exists without electricity or running water instead it lives off the "Three F's": farming, family and football.




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