A boy with a football sits on his bed at the Sahara Football Academy in Pokhara, Nepal. The academy is a well run home for street children and orphans. 20 boys are provided with a home, education and football training. The football helps keep them...
Female referee, Fatou Gaye, enters her changing room before officiating at a men's football match in Dakar, Senegal. Gaye was part of the elite group of referees that officited at the 2007 women's world cup final in China. (Photo by Peter Dench/Reportage by Getty Images)...
A football match plan on the wall in one of the dressing rooms at the Sylvio Cator Stadium in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In 1974, Haiti won a place at the world cup finals in Germany. 33 revolutionary years later, the impoverished country's under-17 team played at...
Children play beach football at an EPROCAD centre in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The centre uses football as a tool to transform children with low self esteem and negative perception into critical proactive citizens. (Photo by Peter Dench/Reportage by Getty Images)...
A young boy in the Osire settlement practices his football skills barefoot. Established in 1992 250KM north east of the Namibian capital Windhoek, Osire has a population of around 8,500. Most are from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo by Peter Dench/Reportage by...
Kids on the Grassroot Soccer programme warm up at a school in Cape Town, South Africa. The idea is to develop a curriculum for HIV/AIDS education, based on games. Football attracts kids and the messages from the game can easily be applied to daily life....
A Jewish man watches a football match between Katamon Abu Ghosh Mevaseret FC (in white), a mixture of Arab and Jewish players, and a team of Druze from the occupied Golan Heights. They are the first ever Syrian born football team to play in Israel....
Football shirts dry on the grass next to a match being played near a slum on the outskirts of Bogota by children on the Goals For a Better Life programme. Run by the Colombianito's charity, it aims to use the kids passion for football to...
Spectators file past the flag of the Colombianito's football team after a match played in the Colombian city of Cartagena. The Colombianito's charity aims to use kids passion for football to keep them in school and away from street gangs. (Photo by Peter Dench/Reportage by...
Players and fans of LASA, the Liberian Amputee Sports Association football team celebrate victory after a match in the capital Monrovia by clicking crutches together and raising them into the air. (Photo by Peter Dench/Reportage by Getty Images)...