by Mark Hodson | Jul 19, 2017
To say the team has improved on the field is maybe one of the greater underestimations I may have made in my almost-40 years on this planet. The football is unrecognizable from the hurried chatter and enthusiasm that kicked up the unbreathable dirt in the blazing heat...
by Mark Hodson | Oct 26, 2016
We’ve all come a long way in terms of distance traveled as players and as human beings. I still remember with vivid clarity the time we ran a football tryout, in the unlikely, apocalyptic setting of a refugee camp in Eastern Chad. If the truth be told, I had no idea...
by Mark Hodson | Jun 6, 2014
I suspect that the player’s spend a lot of time in the refugee camps “imagining…..” Imagining what it’s like “out there” in the World as we know it. The camps are a dark place at night, with limited electricity…there’s not much to do but imagine….I wonder where their...
by Mark Hodson | Jun 7, 2012
Darfur United is a team like no other. Ten weeks ago the players left their homes, families and friends to “investigate” an invitation to try-out for an All-Star Darfuri refugee team…I can’t imagine at any stage during that trip to camp Djabal that anybody truly...
by Mark Hodson | Jun 5, 2012
On the day you took your driving test, imagine showing up at the driving school and the instructor leading you to an F-50 Fighter Jet and throwing you the keys……How many would climb in the cockpit? That’s the only way I can conceptualize the amazing...
