A general view is seen of an unfinished field at the FIFA Goal Project site in the Hawks Bay area of Karachi, Pakistan, July 15, 2015. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
DHARAN, Nepal/KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - There are no recognisable football fields, no players, and just a rusting goalpost at Pakistan's Hawksbay training centre, built with a $500,000 FIFA grant on a windswept plot by the Arabian Sea near Karachi, and officially completed two years ago.
In Nepal, goats graze on a rutted playing field near decrepit facilities at the Dharan soccer academy built with FIFA cash in the Himalayan foothills. The sole member of staff, a watchman, says he hasn't been paid for a year.
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