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Thursday, 2 August 2018

'Soccer is a way to cope': sport as solace for a community in the crosshairs

A new film about Oakland youth from undocumented families highlights the healing power of soccer amid the spectre of Trump’s immigration policy

Benjamin Gonzales says Futbolistas 4 Life, an after-school soccer program at his high school in Oakland changed his life.

“If it wasn’t for our team I wouldn’t have graduated high school,” Gonzales says.

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