Photos from a Football Match Between Refugees and Homeless People in Greece

This article originally appeared on VICE Greece

Last Friday, members of the Greek Homeless Football Team and people behind street magazine Schedia (the Greek version of The Big Issue) gathered at a refugee centre in an old factory, in western Thessaloniki. They were there for a friendly but important football match against a team made up of young refugees.

This group of refugees have been stuck in Greece for months, living under pretty dire conditions in one of the most remote parts of Thessaloniki. With this game the Greek Homeless Football Team – who won the Fair Play Award at the Homeless World Cup in Glasgow this summer – were hoping to give the refugees the opportunity to forget about their tourbles for a couple of hours. "It was an intense experience," Sakis Avramakis, coach of the Homeless Team, told VICE Greece. "Everyone loved it. It was a very important game."

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