"If the youth are not involved in the (slum) upgrading process, it won't happen, " Boniface says.

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The problem with servers and software, however, is that they are in constant need of upgrading--an expensive and time-consuming process.

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"Football brings us a promise of development, a fairer distribution of income, a window of social inclusion, a process of widening the GDP, of sport creating income, jobs and taxes, of upgrading Brazilian society through football, " he said.

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