by Mark Hodson | Jun 4, 2012
“We’ve already won……we’ve already won……We’re Darfur United and we’ve already won!” It’s 4am…Game day…I can’t sleep! Tonight we play our first ever “official game.” Indeed Darfur’s first ever game, and it is in the VIVA World Cup, in a real football stadium against the...
by Mark Hodson | Apr 4, 2012
The team arrives every morning at “around” 5.30am. Darfuri time is not exact, if you are within 30 minutes either side, you are in good shape….though it’s usually only one side of the allotted time that things happen here! I have tried to introduce routine to the...
by Mark Hodson | Apr 4, 2012
Life is undoubtedly a lottery. We have no say as to when and where we will arrive, who will be responsible for our care and under what circumstances our days will deliver. Many are winners in life’s game of chance, but many more have to endure untold hardship and...
by Mark Hodson | Apr 2, 2012
…was famously quoted by the late, great Liverpool Coach Bill Shankly, although I doubt whether he had a team of refugee players from Darfur in mind when he made that proclamation…but “oh boy” was he right! Football has been very kind to me and my family....
by Mark Hodson | Apr 1, 2012
There are some moments in your life that stay with you forever. It could be the day of your marriage, the birth of your child, the passing of a loved one or a moment of achievement……..Moments in time that will always reproduce a feeling so tangible and deep every time...
