Homeless holiday

Charity: Is a $20,000 soccer trip really the best way to help the homeless? | Jamie Dean

On the sidelines of a soggy soccer field in Charlotte, N.C., Stephanie Johnson sips Gatorade and hollers to her teammates: "All right now . . . Ya'll bring it home." The 45-year-old Maryland native never imagined she'd find herself playing defense on an amateur soccer team, primarily for one reason: Ms. Johnson is homeless.

But homelessness has not kept Ms. Johnson from playing soccer on one of two homeless teams in the United States, and it won't keep her and her teammates from taking an all-expense-paid trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, this month for the third annual Homeless World Cup. Homeless teams from 32 countries are scheduled to compete at Edinburgh's famous Princess Street Gardens July 20-24 in an event that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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