Pakistan street child football team defeats Norwegian club 6-0

E-Paper | April 27, 2026

OSLO: Pakistan's street child football team defeated Norwegian club Ben Ford 6-0 on Monday, DawnNews reported.

The Pakistani team had already made a winning start to the competition with a 1-0 win over another local Norwegian team Lambertseter.

The Norway Cup 2014 is the world’s largest International youth football tournament and has featured over 47,000 teams since the tournament’s inception in 1972, with over 1,400 teams participating in the competition in it's previous edition alone.

Pakistan previously won the bronze medal in the Street Child World Cup (SCWC) held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil this year.

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jokhio

Jul 28, 2014 06:31pm

Great News.

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farzana khan

Jul 28, 2014 06:33pm

Excellent Keep it up.

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Khwaja

Jul 28, 2014 06:40pm

Awesome! gives me heart that there's depth of talent for football in Pakistan!

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Md Imran

Jul 28, 2014 07:10pm

AoA! Bravo ! We should try and qualify for the 2018 world cup ! Inshallah, with Allah's grace, the day is not far when we will bring home the worldcup.

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Haider

Jul 28, 2014 07:26pm

Bravo street boys of Pakistan. Talent is gushing from the street, all we need some touch work.

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Ehsan

Jul 28, 2014 07:28pm

Shabash, great Independence Day gift

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itrat

Jul 28, 2014 07:36pm

Go Pak Team , Proud of You , kids

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Amjad Haroon

Jul 28, 2014 07:38pm

This team can be groomed and may be given the status of Pakistan National football Team, i am sure with more hard work, quality coaching and few tweaks, this team will perform better than the present national side.

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Afzal

Jul 28, 2014 07:40pm

Well done! Keep it up!

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Salman

Jul 28, 2014 07:43pm

Atleast something to be happy on eid. Well done boys.

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Sagar

Jul 28, 2014 07:45pm

Zindabaad! Keep making us proud!!!

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Mango-man

Jul 28, 2014 07:47pm

Welldone! We just need to groom this team for the future in professional football competition. They have already prove their talent.

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Khan

Jul 28, 2014 07:51pm

Point to note that the selection of team is done on merit and bypassing Pakistan football association had they followed Pakistan football association these players would have never made to the team only players from Lahore will be selected.

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haiderrr

Jul 28, 2014 07:51pm

well done boys , proud of you all

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Dr. Cajetan Coelho

Jul 28, 2014 08:10pm

Congratulations to the young winners. Well played.

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Shahid

Jul 28, 2014 08:42pm

Its time Pakistan starts going over to playing football with lesser attention to cricket. Football is an international sport and has much more marketing value than cricket.

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Visibly

Jul 28, 2014 08:46pm

Believe it or not: Norwegians are delighted about the good results for these Pakistani street children!

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AHA

Jul 28, 2014 09:14pm

Great job. Proud.

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Asif Naeem Bhatti

Jul 28, 2014 09:29pm

well done boys - proud of you

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Horrible

Jul 28, 2014 09:52pm

Thank you bravo for a precious gift to the nation on Eid Mubarek. Keep it up.

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daniel shiger

Jul 28, 2014 10:39pm

this step in the right direction will lead you guys one day to the world cup and I sincerely pray for you to bring the world cup to Pakistan one day.

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Moiz Omar

Jul 28, 2014 10:39pm

Great.

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Tizzy

Jul 28, 2014 11:03pm

Bravo to Habib Bank also. If this bank invest in this team, the very same boys will one day be playing for the national team and who knows we will be watching them playing in FIFA world cup 2000 something. Hard work and perseverance could be the source of miracles!!!!

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Kamran

Jul 28, 2014 11:06pm

Good job! These youth, if nourished properly, can beat world class teams also. Lets keep it going.

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Nom

Jul 28, 2014 11:13pm

Way to go guys.....:-)

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masud kiani

Jul 28, 2014 11:20pm

Great people of the great country. Keep it up, We are Proud of You...

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mba

Jul 28, 2014 11:20pm

Fantastic! Jewels of our streets Shine on, Shine on!

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Syed Nazim

Jul 28, 2014 11:59pm

I wish manager of the team made a movie of the game and TV channels in Pakistan show it in their sports program.

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Sarah

Jul 29, 2014 12:06am

Real Heroes of Pakistan!

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MAH

Jul 29, 2014 01:39am

bravo!

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Harmony

Jul 29, 2014 02:58am

@Ehsan -

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Ali

Jul 29, 2014 03:55am

Amazing the people in last row seems so excitied like they have lots to do with the street boys. I am sure they would have been still on the street and these last row people would have walked by them.

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Sarfraz

Jul 30, 2014 01:53pm

Well Played Team Pakistan Keep it up. We are proud of you keep the Flag high

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Muddsar Nazir

Aug 01, 2014 01:02am

Excellent Keep it up

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