The World Cup could have ended for the rest of us, but not of the youth of Maseru in Lesotho. To them soccer is a way of fighting AIDS, a scourge in this small south African country of less than 2 million people. The country has the third highest HIV Virus prevalence.

In order to tackle HIV and AIDS in Lesotho, the Youth Development through Football project embarked on a partnership with the non-governmental organization Kick4Life in 2008 to bring together orphaned and vulnerable children in a mini league dabbed the ‘Maseru Street League’.

The street league teaches the youths who take part in it a great deal more than just the rules and techniques of the game. It provides them with secondary education and achieves this through football-related activities, Aljazeera reported.