Never, Never, Never Give Up

Never, Never, Never Give Up

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...
A Typical Darfuri Training Session…

A Typical Darfuri Training Session…

The three dots at the end of this heading are imperative to include in this blog. Reasons to follow. For those of you who have never observed a Darfuri futbol game in the refugee camps or training session out here in Osterstund, Sweden, it is quite a unique and...
Coaching Darfuri Men

Coaching Darfuri Men

I’ve been fortunate enough to coach soccer to many different age groups, competitive levels, males and females and various regions of the world, however I most certainly have never coached Darfuri men. Before embarking on this trip as an assistant coach for Darfur...
Watching Football, Dreaming Peace

Watching Football, Dreaming Peace

In 2005, I headed out to Darfuri refugee camps on the Chad-Sudan border with a little camera and a very naive heart and mind. I was going to go put a face on the numbers of dead, raped, and displaced that were being reported from what was being called, “hell on...
Build the 2014 DU Squad

Build the 2014 DU Squad

i-ACT 19 is upon us! Gabriel and I will be leaving for Chad this coming Monday, the 28th. Along with a professional soccer coach, we’ll be heading to camp Djabal to select the Darfur United players that will form the 2014 squad who will compete in the ConIFA World...