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Refugee Soccer brings the game to Afghans awaiting placement

Published December 18, 2021 6:00 AM

By LINDSAY AERTS
KSL NewsRadio

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah-based Refugee Soccer is hoping to welcome Afghan refugees to America, through playing soccer. KSL NewsRadio reports that Refugee Soccer organizes soccer teams of those who’ve settled in Utah. They gather equipment and help place players on mainstream soccer clubs. Now its executive director is leading a group of 10 volunteers to a military base in New Mexico after Christmas to play soccer with Afghans who fled the country this summer. Adam Miles says thousands of Afghans are living on the base near El Paso as they wait for placement in homes around the country.

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