The coach of this soccer team of refugees helps the kids get to college too. She also explained how her own life changed when she started coaching these students from several countries. - - Donna Poisl
By Neil Harvey
The big change in Luma Mufleh's life came, she said, about the time she saw the boy with just one shoe.
Today, Mufleh is a soccer coach living in Georgia, and she's the central figure of Warren St. John's book "Outcasts United."
Mufleh spoke Sunday at William Fleming High School before a packed auditorium and between the final matches of Roanoke Valley Reads' Refugee Cup soccer tournament. Teams from Roanoke; Charlottesville; Nashville, Tenn.; and Columbus, Ohio, played in the championship at the high school and at Hollins University. Roanoke's Lion Football Club defeated Nashville 10-1 to win.
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