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 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Daniel Martinez raced through two defenders, faked the goalkeeper and tapped the ball into the open net. Such things were expected of Martinez when he was a teenage soccer star in Honduras. Now, he was wearing hand-me-down shoes and playing in a dusty parking lot.
Martinez was one of more than 50 homeless American men and women who traveled to Charlotte this month for the first Homeless USA Cup. And he was one of 12 selected to represent the United States in next month's Homeless World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa.
"I feel like I'm at home, man," the 23-year-old Martinez said. "There is nothing else better in the world. People, soccer, it's great."
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