It's the final day of the Homeless World Cup in Santiago and the host nation are aiming for a 2014 double.
Chile will face Bosnia & Herzegovina in the men's Homeless World Cup final and Mexico in the final of the women's tournament.
The men got there with a last-gasp winner against Brazil in a 8-7 victory. It was tight in the other semi-final as well with the Bosnians eventually closing out a 5-4 win over Poland.
Chile's women's team also faced Brazil in their semi-final but enjoyed a slightly more comfortable 4-1 win.
They'll face an on-form Mexico though, with Hungary brushed aside 13-1 in the other semi-final.
The Chilean men will be looking for a second Homeless World Cup in three years having won the tournament in Mexico in 2012 while Bosnia & Herzegovina get their first taste of a Homeless World Cup final.
Having lost the final to Russia last year, Chile's women's team are on the hunt for a first title while Mexico will be looking to win for a second time have lifted the trophy in Rio de Janeiro back in 2010.
Scotland's bad run in Group D ended on Friday with further defeats to Bosnia and Peru.
That left Scotland progressing to the Municipalidad de Santiago Cup.
Defeat to Germany and a win over Austria yesterday mean the Scots face a Municipalidad de Santiago Cup 5th place play off against Greece today.
Eight trophies are up for grabs across the men's and women's tournaments today with every team involved in the final day of action.
Brazil won their second Homeless World Cup trophy after a penalty shootout win over Mexico in Poznan.
Financial pressure meant the 2010 champions arrived in Poland with just four players but they held their nerve to consign Mexico to their third consecutive final defeat.
Travelling with a squad cut back to the minimum number of players allowed failed to dent Brazil's recent consistency in their tournament with two wins and three third place finishes in the last five Homeless World Cups.
The Women's Homeless World Cup again offered consolation for Mexico as they ran out 4-1 winners over Chile to retain the title they won at home in 2012.
Scotland, who lost their Polish President's Cup semi final to Austria yesterday, lost 8-4 to Ireland today to finish the event in 12th place overall.
On a mixed day for the home nations Northern Ireland beat Greece 12-1 in their Ministry of Labour Cup play off match while Wales lost 7-3 to Cambodia in The Cup of Tolerance.
England's men lost 6-4 to the United State in The INSP Trophy but the English women's team beat Wales on penalties after a 4-4 draw to lift The Equality Cup.
So the 2013 Homeless World Cup ends with Brazil crowned champions. But the beauty of this tournament are the hundreds of other winners it produces as players from across the world travel home with a new determination to change their lives.
As Homeless World Cup president and co-founder Mel Young said in Poznan today:
"There are one hundred million homeless people in the world today and one homeless person is one too many.
"Football has the power to transform lives and the best result this week was not on the pitch, but how the players took the next step to move forward in their lives and inspire other homeless people to do the same."
Brazil lift the Homeless World Cup trophy
Homeless World Cup 2013 finals:
The Homeless World Cup: Brazil beat Mexico on penalties
The Polish President's Cup: Netherlands beat Austria 6-5
The Poznan City Cup: Bulgaria beat Costa Rica 8-4
The Ministry of Labour Cup: Belgium beat Slovenia 8-4
The Cup of Tolerance: Germany beat Norway 3-1
The INSP Trophy: Finland beat Sweden on penalties
The Women's Homeless World Cup: Mexico beat Chile 4-1
The Equality Cup: England beat Wales on penalties
Why are so many games played on Homeless World Cup finals day?
Mel Young explains:
"During the week, the teams have been playing in a series of qualifying sections and knock out stages. In the men’s competition, teams compete for the Homeless World Cup but there are also five other plate competitions to be won. Unlike other cups, teams do not go home if they lose but they stay in the competition to play for a place. Each team will play at least once to decide their final position.
"The Women’s Homeless World Cup works in exactly the same way except there are fewer plate competitions because there are fewer women’s teams taking part.
"Each team will receive a trophy for their position and every player will receive the same medal. Because the teams are all now at the same level each game will be very close.
"I always love Finals Day at the Homeless World Cup because there is high drama in every game. Then the medal ceremonies are a fabulous show of friendship and solidarity as the players each receive their awards with a big smile on their face in front of a cheering crowd."
Scotland couldn't hold on to their 2011 title at the Homeless World Cup in Mexico but they did manage to end the tournament on high.
Saturday's results had conspired to pitch us against England in Sunday's final match.
A play off for 7th place in the Mexico City Trophy might not have been what either side had dreamed of as they trained for the Mexican spotlight.
But a clash with the Auld Enemy always sparks the imagination.
Yesterday Scotland came out on top with a 9-3 victory.
9-3.
A score with a certain resonance in the history of cross border footballing skirmishes.
Redemption can arrive in strange places. I'm sure Frank Haffey is saluting this Scottish team from afar.
Homeless World Cup football is an intense sport. Four-a-side on a tight, enclosed pitch.
It's fast and it can be furious. That was certainly the case in the final game of this tournament as Chile beat hosts Mexico 8-5 to lift the Homeless World Cup trophy.
In front of a huge crowd - watching on from Scotland the attendances at this Homeless World Cup have never failed to amaze - neither side looked prepared to give an inch.
But Chile, who saw off my favourites Brazil in the semi finals, seem a side keen to spring a surprise.
They clung on as Mexico - buoyed by their win in the Women's Homeless World Cup - got off to a flying start. And they got stronger as the game progressed, edging ahead and holding their lead.
Both sides, I'd guess, will have left the pitch knowing they'd been in a hell of game. The referee might have felt the same way.
So the trophy and the post-match glee belonged to Chile.
But, trite as it sounds, there are few losers over the course of this tournament.
The players are experiencing an event few of them could have imagined before they found a communal purpose through football.
The Homeless World Cup itself finds a week long platform to celebrate the work that goes on around the world for the other 51 weeks of the year.
The work I keep mentioning, the work that uses football to change the lives of the forgotten, the marginalised, the ignored and the stigmatised.
Mel Young, co-founder and president of the Homeless World Cup, said after the final:
"There are one hundred million homeless people in the world today and one homeless person is one too many.
"Football has the power to transforms lives and the best result this week was not on the pitch, but how the players took the next step to move forward in their lives and inspire other homeless people to do the same."
Maybe watching a game online, reading this blog or visiting the tournament website will have led someone to change their opinion of homeless people somewhere in the world.
I hope so.
I do know that almost every player in Mexico will already have changed their lives. Most of them will take more positive steps in the weeks, month and years ahead.
Thousands more like them will be on the same journey. Not all of them can make the trip to the Homeless World Cup. But each of them will feel the benefit of the tournament's global stage.
But there's still more to do.
More lives that can be changed by nothing more complicated than this daft, frustrating, simple, infuriating game.
The penultimate day of the 2012 Homeless World Cup brought more drama and more mixed fortunes for Scotland.
And by the close of play results had conspired to ensure that the final day of the tournament will see an Auld Enemy clash.
With results in the second group stage sending Scotland into the Mexico City Cup for the final two days, yesterday began with another nerve jangling defeat.
This time the opponents were Norway and once again it was to be a defeat in a sudden death penalty shoot-out. The number of Scotland games decided on penalties in 2012 hints at how competitive the tournament has now become. It also shows how fine the margins between winning and losing can be.
The 5-5 draw and shoot-out heartbreak meant Scottish hopes of once again returning home with a trophy were dashed.
England had similarly faltered, their 7-7 draw with Czech Republic ending in defeat after penalties.
That left a final day Scotland v England clash just a game way.
England duly dispatched Hungary 6-3 before Scotland met up once again with second round opponents Ukraine.
After a penalty win on Thursday Scotland were more commanding this time, running our 9-5 winners.
So the stage was set. Scotland v England in Mexico City on the final day of the Homeless World Cup as they play off for 5th place in the Mexico City Cup.
I've been tipping Brazil to challenge for the Homeless World Cup trophy all week but they fell at the semi final stage in an engrossing - if not brutal - penalties defeat against Chile.
Hosts Mexico came through an equally bruising encounter with Indonesia, winning 9-6 to give themselves a great chance of winning their home Homeless World Cup.
Elsewhere Ireland lost to both Haiti and South Africa and will play Poland today for 7th place in the The Fundación Telmex Cup.
Wales fared better with wins against the Philippines and Argentina setting up a De la Calle a la Cancha Cup final against Peru.
Mexico's women matched the men to reach the final of the Women's Homeless World Cup where they'll face Brazil.
Key times today:
7:00 pm - Scotland v England
10:05 pm - Mexico v Brazil (Women's Homeless World Cup final)
10:30 pm - Mexico v Chile (2012 Homeless World Cup final)
Scotland captain Mark Stack explain what playing in the Homeless World Cup means to him and how the work of Street Soccer Scotland helped him overcome his addiction and rebuild his confidence.
In the words of the late Donald Dewar: "I like that."
In Paris yesterday Scotland's Homeless World Cup men's team beat Mexico to life the trophy.
A tight game finished 4-3, with a goal from Sean Lawrence and a William McLean hat-trick for Scotland.
A second Homeless World Cup trophy for Scotland following the win in Copenhagen four years ago.
Someone on twitter asked if us Scots shouldn't feel queasy about celebrating such a win.
We should feel queasy about the problems with homelessness that still pockmark modern Scotland.
But we should be happy to celebrate Scotland's win.
The Homeless World Cup lasts for only one week every year.
Yet the work it inspires lasts throughout the year in the 48 countries that took part.
Thousands of people are helped each year, lives given structure, confidence rebuilt.
The annual Homeless World Cup tournament provides focus and inspiration for that work.
It's maybe time we stopped looking for ever darker linings in every cloud.
A whopping majority of the players involved in projects across the world change their lives for the better.
Why shouldn't we celebrate that?
But this group of Scots went to Paris with very little. They come home as world champions.
The boost in their own lives and the inspiration they'll provide for others like them is almost immeasurable.
Why shouldn't we celebrate that?
The fight against homelessness goes on. The Homeless World Cup will continue as long as it is needed.
And yesterday in Paris the work it does, the change it inspires, was celebrated.
Scotland played a full part in that. It might not be recognised in the mainstream media here, it might still come up against cynnicism and lazy stereotypes.
But the Scotland team did something worth celebrating.
Something that's worth more than simply raising a trophy at the end of a football game.
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> In their debut Women's Homeless World Cup, Scotland beat Malawi 4-2 to claim fifth place.
The tournament was won by Kenya, Mexico were once again the runners-up.
Stop it. Stop all these good news stories when we're supposed to be wrestling with self loathing over our footballing inadequacy.
But when the Homeless World Cup final kicks off in Paris tomorrow, Scotland will be there.
Their lunchtime quarter final against Ukraine was an 11 goal thriller. But it was Scotland who edged it, six goals to five, to set up a semi final against Kenya.
Another tough one this Parisian afternoon, a big crowd and a big prize.
But it was Scotland, winners in 2007, who claimed the win. A 5-3 victory enough to set up a final against Mexico.
No slouches the Mexicans, they ripped apart the reigning champions Brazil, a 5-1 victory sending them to their first Homeless World Cup final.
As I've written throughout this Homeless World Cup week the taking part, the changing of lives, is what's important.
The winning is secondary.
It's still bloody nice to hear the phrase "Scotland reach World Cup final" though.
