Blind football - Sportsworld - 1 March 08

Al Jazeera's Rahul Pathak reports from the townships of South Africa where Dumisane Ntombela, 18, has earned the respect of his peers by becoming a football player and coach despite being blind since the age of two.

As his disability pension is cut by the government, his team The Silver Spears struggle to pay for equipment for a match against a team from Johannesburg.

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