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funnel has set up a soccer club just for refugees on the island. thanks to his efforts. young refugees like paws from camera room can dream of professional sports careers. the ah there's little left of the moria refugee camp, unless both 4th and 12000 people lived here for a while in and around the camp until it burned down in september of 2020 sometimes the noise i don't like for years and maria, he doesn't like looking back on a time that was difficult for him to do laundry film, the raging blades with
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a cell phone, he was able to get to safety in the . 7 he's returned to moria to see if you can find traces of his life here. but at 1st all he picks up our medical records from former camp occupants. he shut the door, shut. no, no, no, control of your head. yes . before he fled, ploy was also tortured in his home country. cameroon. he says he didn't get any medical help in moria, and then there was the violence. weren't even safe in your own tent. became the sledge my fault. we have to fight and you see i have some scratches in my body. the 4th with him. i fought with him. we didn't want to get my phone.
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so i was a kid. then he finds a spot where he used to bed down on my cough. i remember this is my golf. i. i got it forms pianos. so yvonne gallo spanners is probably the best known football coach on less boss and pause savior. go thanks to spine. he's no longer living in one of the camps. but as a member of the elite o soccer team, a local island squad just missed promotion to greece, a 2nd leak this year. that success is thanks to the new team members. 3 young refugees from africa and spinal cord. not everyone approves of his efforts to help refugees on the island was some
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greek parents have already taken their children off a spinal says youth teams. it was a problem. but i decide okay, doesn't matter. i'm doing. i'm also a physical educator or not. so i have to to feed people not only for sports, but also for me have your work for values for all these things. spinal c major soccer, talent, and paul that would make a professional career possible. but until he's made it in the big league and all the training sessions with sign up often if he can't do the fire at moria spun with in his protege, have been inseparable when the coach saw smoke rising over the island, he went to look for paul immediately i went back with my god,
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i took on all the ill, his things, and those a bicycle in mike. and i said to him again because the police was out and i said to him, go, and they said they were waiting for you to kill him. and after some hours, again, we did after training today, all doesn't need to get a ride back to a refugee camp from one of his teammates. now he lives with other players in this former hotel. never again will we have to cope with insect credits and hours of waiting for food instead, he's got a full meal plan and a proper bed because it made it into a support program for gifted athletes. paul says he has spun us and got to think. sure this is my bible. like it, i see my name, you go pull on it. this is my email. this is my with the i got the
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bible. the bible is the only thing he had left it after a month long odyssey to escape political violence. and his homeland showed my burial site in front of me was like a touch od between these 2 bad so, but for me like, i don't want to talk. yeah. did spawn was helps them forget. and so to soccer, that's the cosmos, as the name of the refugee team, young people come from the car to tape a refugee camp twice a week for practice. for the mostly unaccompanied miners. it's one of the few opportunities to get out of the camp. they say conditions and car tape, they are better than they were in moria, but they are still severely lacking. it can take years for an asylum claim to be processed in greece. the youngsters know that they can get
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a residence permit increase more quickly if they're successful with soccer ball has showed them the way since he has begun playing. and thirdly, team and started working as an assistant coach for cosmos. he's become an example. paul really is unhappy that the afghans and africans wait separately before practice. much of course, most does more than contribute to understanding among the refugees. no, i know. i know the sport should also promote sympathy among greek for the frequently traumatized foreigners. i know, i know, i know we can give them help, we can change their behaviors so we can make them better, better be the best ones. so when they're in the society, the community, it will be very easy for them to speak with local people and local
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people to check to see that they are the same with us. they're not different again, a new players introducing himself to spinal today. he too is flood from cameras. if he played before in mind, come on, but he's here. he's allowed to join in the end of the spinal says you have to turn someone away. nobody today spinal st. boiler having the youngsters focus on conditioning. all of them are working as hard as they can because the president of the thirdly team illegal has said he'd be there. let's get the read he's a businessman was hoping to make good deals with possible trade destinations for talented player, so we get the best. but today, he doesn't have anything with him. that would mean a speedy escape from life in a refugee camp. maybe a residential program if we are like, who is
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a registered player, can play anywhere in greece anywhere. you know, if he's good enough to play someone, identify, select them is free to go play anyway. so that's, that's the process we try to help as much as we can. the reality is there's only a small number of players that through yet another shadow on the dreams of the cost . most players was which was made it for the moment. last most is only supposed to be a stop along the way. he's dreaming of playing for a professional club and a major european city, like in germany or france for like going to the elite was cafe and people like seeing him there. but he's also experienced racism agreement read push, maybe a good to a coffee shop or this huge is don't in a way like that. you find out why they were green. i want to see they are leaving.
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ok. the refugee controversy unless versus continuing. the european union is planning a new center to take them in, but most of the locals are opposed to it. then we were against the new candidate. so we don't want everyone coming in may not need to ship one of those. you know, we don't have any factories or work. what am i supposed to do here? if the germans as too much money and they should take them in the polls become used to the fact that not all greeks like to see him playing soccer and at some moment he misses his family. i think that it was really painful when he visited a training camp with an american player. the parents came with the team. like i started grain know i look at how they were like
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luckily for poor and the other soccer players, unless both they still have spawn us. he's tirelessly working on their behalf. even the european soccer association us has in the meantime began to support fc cosmos. in 2015 spawn was one the great championship with a youth team from the a g and islands. there was talk of making him the coach of the national youth team, but it didn't happen. maybe because he was known as the refugee coach. meanwhile, the 55 year old says he wouldn't trade his work with the youngsters from the camps with any other job to bed these 3 races for me and my wife and they brought it here so i can see after 2 years and now we summit, we have this 30 here and we saw people growing, we saw people changing, we saw people laughing and when they are coming here,
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kids and in every age they are very angry. so and every day by day we are looking them smiling, working, talking with the out as this is nice, this nice you read ah, a former player called photos. it's still there for his boys even after he sent them on to other clubs in greece. or they've moved on to other places in europe. they don't forget him. even if the coach couldn't make all their dreams come true, he's brought humanity back to the soccer pitch on the refugee island of less pos. ah
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my name is sarah kelly, and i was the who's this is the w news coming to live from berlin. credit by herself. breaking australia takes a turn for the worse new restrictions were imposed, as more cases emerge in multiple parts of the country. officials call it a new phase. the pandemic. also in the program. russia cells the alarm over its 3rd way, but the current of virus numbers of new cases of re record highs, despite russia being the 1st country to roll out a corona,
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