Fugees

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:24:54 GMT

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Refugees Find Hope, Film Deal on Soccer Field

In suburban Atlanta, a soccer team made up of refugees found itself fighting city hall for a place to play. Now, they've won more than that.

Since the publication in January of a New York Times article about their travails, the teammates have also garnered a book and movie deal.

The Fugees, as the players are known, are young boys from global hot spots: They've fled famine, war and other horrors in places such as Sudan, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Burundi. They wound up in the small town of Clarkston, Ga., which has become a center for refugee resettlement due to its access to public transportation, cheap and plentiful housing, and proximity to Atlanta.

The transition to life in America has not been easy for the families in Clarkston's refugee community. But many of the children have bonded as teammates in the Fugees — short for "the refugees."

The team's coach, Luma Mufleh, first brought the kids together through soccer, but she says they have come to rely on each other for much more. They gather in the evenings to practice on Clarkston's Armistead Field.

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