Away from the world of state-of-the-art stadiums with their food-for-a-month ticket prices, billionaire soccer players, celebrities and TV cameras, the children in the Kliptown settlement area passed the time during the World Cup by playing their favorite sport on any given open piece of land between the local railway line, garbage dump and shacks. Kliptown is a community with historic significance in the struggle against Apartheid, serving as the site where the Freedom Charter was signed in 1955. Despite its strongly recognised historical-political significance, the Kliptown area has yet to be uplifted from its impoverished conditions with high unemployment (between 60% – 70%) and low education levels with many people living on social grants. The Kliptown settlement area has a population size of between 38 000 and 45 000 people with the majority of residents not having access to decent accommodation and services, or access to land that can be effectively developed for this purpose. While the area comprises a mix of housing types, informal housing (squatter camps) is said to dominate, making up an estimated 85% of all housing units in the area. These are largely shack dwellings made of wood, iron (and some brick) structures built on land owned by the government. The squatter camps which make up Kliptown settlement area are largely located around the Klipspruit valley area (along the river bank), a hazardous flood plain area, as well as along the railway line. With very little material wealth, the children of Kliptown have found resourceful ways to create their own footballs to indulge in the beautiful game of football, and making the world’s favourite game their own.