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Street Soccer Academy tackles homelessness

The power of sport is often used to bring people together.

But in Leicester, football is being used to help young people who've fallen on difficult times and who've ending up sofa surfing or homeless and jobless.

The 'Street Soccer Academy' is a group of people who meet once a week to play football and learn life skills.

Our reporter Helen McCarthy has been to training to meet them.

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