by Sara-Christine | Oct 28, 2016
This blog was written by Rudy Sanchez, Darfur United Assistant Coach. During our stay, one of my tasks was to conduct a short interview where one of the questions asked the refugees what they missed most about their home in Darfur. Little to my surprise, the answer...
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 Amy Gilmore | Oct 25, 2016
We arrived in Ostersund with six staff members. If you ask the players, we will only be returning with five. Mohammad Adam and Sadaam had a hint of sincerity when they jokingly told me the team is going to do “whatever it takes” to keep Coach Mark in...
by Gabriel | Oct 24, 2016
We walk off of the plane and a nice, sharp cold hits us. This is not southern California, and it’s definitely not eastern Chad. Östersund, Sweden might be an odd place for an all-refugee team from Darfur to meet up with its coaching and management team from the...