by Katie-Jay | Jul 16, 2017
It cannot be a more stark difference. The football that Darfur United has played in the last six days at training camp in Östersund, Sweden; and the first days of tryouts back in refugee camp Djabal in eastern Chad in 2012. Through it all, Coach Mark Hodson has...
by Katie-Jay | Jul 7, 2017
The annual Darfur United Men’s Team training camp is here! Starting Sunday, July 9, players from Darfur, Sudan will gather in Ostersund, Sweden for 10 days of training, agility, strengthening, and fitness. The 2017 Östersund Training Camp will also include three...
by Katie-Jay | Jul 7, 2017
Östersund FK (ÖFK), a professional Swedish football club located in Östersund, Sweden, has officially partnered with Darfur United (DU). ÖFK players and staff members have promised to donate a percentage of their salaries to iACT through the Zero Point One campaign,...
by Margo Baker | Jun 6, 2014
I’ve been trying for a week now to put into words exactly what it has been like to be on this journey with the Darfur United men’s soccer team, and the only word I can come up with to describe it is amazing.These men are fighters and have a never give up...
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...
