Belo Horizonte: Brazilian prostitutes and a Christian evangelical group played a football match in World Cup host city Belo Horizonte, taking over a central street to raise awareness about sex workers' rights. Gathering just after Colombia played Greece in the south-eastern city, the women set up an impromptu pitch using traffic cones for goalposts and played to the enthusiastic cheers of onlookers.
The prostitutes, calling themselves the Naked Football Club - though in fact they played in the green and yellow uniforms of Brazil - teamed up with the visiting evangelicals from the United States to take on a local university team in a match with a message.
We're no different from anyone else just because we're sex workers," player Patricia Bonges said. Her American team-mate Jenny Jack said the game was about showing that "you just love people, you don't judge, you don't change people, you just love them. The association has also helped some of the city's 80, sex workers prepare for the World Cup by offering free English classes at a local mall.
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