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Hi my name is Liza Musla
Hi my name is Liron
My name is Ron
I am from Israel
I am from Palestine
I am from Palestine
I am from Palestine
From Israel
Represent Palestine
And peace
Peace team
Peace Team
Israel and Palestine
June 2010
West Bank Palestine
The land here is ours
My cousins my friends… We all played football here
We would relax the whole day here
If you could see any one at the games in South Africa, who would you want to see?
Michael Ballack
Cristiano
Christiano Ronaldo?
Mehoz HaDarom (Southern District) Israel
I'd like to meet Messi
Messi?
Messi or Ronaldo
I always played soccer from the time I was born
I grew up with soccer
I tried switching to basketball
but it didn't quite work out
I love soccer the most because you play for a team not for yourself
Me, as Liron, I want to show people the girls can also play soccer
There are some people in Israel, in the world, that think soccer is not for girls
That a girl who plays has something masculine about her.
West Bank Palestine
Just like there's a World Cup for adults there will be one for our age.
35 teams… Boys and girls
And where will you play?
At the field in South Africa, in Johannesburg.
When did you start playing soccer?
In 2002
Really? So you were a little kid
We'd make a soccer field in our garden
and the neighbor`s kids and my cousins would come to play together.
I was the only girl!
There was a field where we planted 'fakus' cucumbers and zucchini
We made that into a pitch and put up goal posts.
We'd play there every day.. every day ..
Israel came and dug it up... they wanted to make a road out of it.
Looks like they don't want it anymore.
This is our safety room. The mess from the whole house is in here!
During the Gaza War, my brother and I slept in here
Twelve jeeps just entered the neighborhood.
Really?
Yes, I swear
They threw a bomb and kept driving around in the neighborhood
What did they want?
They wanted to arrest people.
Imagine a kid that is living
at the moment in Palestine
Who is an Israeli, it's a soldier
And for the Israelis, you can live your whole life without meeting Palestinians
only see them in the media and the news
They see only, only, only bad, bad things towards the other side.
They feel only bad, the negative things towards the other side
I joined Peres Center because we believe in peace.
We want peace between the two counties
the country of Palestine and the country of Israel.
So that the children of both countries
can live their lives freely.
On the television, all we would see was horrible news about Israelis...
And at first we were a little scared
but after we played together and spent time together...
... all of a sudden, we'd see that Arabs are not what you see on the television.
And they'd see the same about us.
The sport department is part of the Peres Center for Peace
use sport as a tool to attract both sides to meet.
♪ We don't want no more of this ♪
It's an excuse to bring them together.
But after a while you forget
that you just started with a sport
it's a really different thing than the daily reality.
Are you excited Liron?
So-so...
So-so? Then it seems you don't understand where you're about to go.
The football pitches in Africa... The players that we'll see there...
Everything about South Africa is cool!
♪ Boom, boom, boom... Give me something different then.... ♪
It brings us honor to show
that while adults are fighting, children can play and get along.
♪ We don't want no more of this boom, boom, boom ♪
♪ We don't want no more of this boom boom boom ♪
Changing the Game
Featured song: "Boom Boom Boom" fromt he project "Hip Hop Hudna" performed by Heartbeat