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Born to Play: A Refugee Soccer Team Grows in the American Desert

• http://projects.voanews.com, By Victoria Macchi

Violence displaced both of their families, thousands of kilometers apart. Now the teens are practicing on the same pitch under the pinks and oranges of a desert sunset on a Friday night before their first games of the season. They run through drills after dark with dozens of other players to the muffled soundtrack of cheering and thunderous drums from a nearby American football game.

The players are old enough to remember — not where their parents were born, but where they sought refuge. For Zara, it's Gabon, not Chad. For Win, Thailand instead of Myanmar.

"You don't know where people came from," explains Zara, a high school senior. "You don't know the life they had before." Tweet


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