10 June 2010 Last updated at 08:47

Your pictures of the week: Football

Fooball practice at the University of Cape Town.

Each week we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week the theme is football and we begin with a photograph taken by Michael Currin of a practice session at the University of Cape Town.

Young Italians in Venice using one of the city's small piazzas as a football pitch

Andy Parker: "These young Italians in Venice use one of the city's small piazzas as a pitch and the archway of a nearby church as a goal to compensate for the lack of green space."

Boys playing football in Piritiba, a small town in the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil.

Maristela Oeltjebruns: "Boys playing in Piritiba, a small town in the state of Bahia, in the northeastern part of Brazil."

Alina Green: "Giant replicas of football players from the Euro 2008 football championships."

Monika Szlenkier: "A very laid-back game of football on the beach at Poovar, Kerala, India."

Blair Kauffmann: "Football jerseys hanging in a market in Bamenda, northwest Cameroon."

Steven Yockey: "One of seven large soccer balls that make up "Out of Bounds" in Avery Park in Dublin, Ohio, US."

Boys playing football on the beach in Spain

Andy Parker: "Argentina seem to be victorious in this match on the Costa de la Luz in Spain, but will they have the same success in South Africa?"

Stephen Newton: "Four-legged ball boys are the way forward!"

And finally, Jorge Sanz finds his dog a "hard rival".

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