Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town
A Soccer, Sports and Games, Nonfiction book. Everything in the world starts small and then becomes biggerexcept bad things....
For readers who followed Enrique's Journey, Outcasts United is another equally moving account of refugees finding a new life in the U.S.Based on the adult bestseller, Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference, this young people's edition is a complex and inspirational story about the Fugees, a youth soccer team made up of diverse refugees from around the world, and their...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780385741941 / 385741944
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Unlike basketball, baseball, or football, games that reset after each play, soccer unfolds fluidly and continuously. To understand how a goal was scored, you have to work back through the action - the sequences of passes and decisions, the movement of the players away from the action who reappear unexpectedly in empty space to create or waste opportunities - all the way back to the first touch. If that goal was scored by a young refugee from Liberia, off an assist from a boy from southern Sudan, who was set up by a player from Burundi or a Kurd from... a group of refugee boys who had survived the unimaginable, strangers now in an unfamiliar land, playing the game with passion, focus, and grace that seemed, for a brief moment anyway, to nullify the effects of whatever misfortune they had experienced in the past. Warren St. John, Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town intriguing Warren St. John, Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
This book is based in Clarkston, a small town in the outskirt of Atlanta, GA. In a seemingly fictional story, Outcast United tells the story of a group of newly arrived refugees, which have been relocated in this small town after having gone through horrible war and persecution nightmares in their home land. It takes us on a journey... Since I tend to read most books about soccer that I happen to hear about, this much buzzed-about book eventually made it to the top of my pile. Even then I shied away from it for a while, since I'm leery of books that are described as "inspirational." Nonetheless, I eventually cracked the spine, and discovered that it's that rare breed... This book was encouraging, journalistic writing that was _not_ over-sensationalized. The team lost often, but won, too. They were a skilled team with major cultural obstacles both internal to their team members (mixed ethnicities was huge) and even stronger in the outside small town where they were all living. This wasnt really a story...
