Fugees Family: the football team who became my life

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger.

One day when Luma Mufleh was driving home to Atlanta, Georgia, she came across a group of barefoot boys playing football in the street, using a raggedy old ball and rocks for goalposts. They reminded her of how she played at home in Jordan and she asked to join their game. The Fugees Family football team was born. Luma Mufleh has written a book about her extraordinary story, Believe in Them: One Woman's Fight for Justice for Refugee Children.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Helen Fitzhenry

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1:00.0	I saw a group of boys playing football.
1:04.2	They had a really raggedy football and rock set up as goals.
1:06.0	They reminded me a little bit of home.
1:07.7	They were playing barefoot.
1:09.8	They were arguing about goals.
1:15.1	And it was the way I grew up playing with my brothers and cousins in the streets of Amman.
1:18.4	I had a football in my trunk.
1:20.1	I got out of my car with the ball.
1:21.6	They saw it.
1:22.5	They ran to me.
1:23.5	They wanted the ball.
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