It's not just a story of one obscure high school season. This is not just a great story, deftly reported and unflinchingly told. and the magical Blue Devils show again just how it's done. Let her take you to our frosty upper righthand corner, to Lewiston, Maine, where quiet heroes like Mike McGraw, Abdi H. "In this noisy era of glib hot-takes and childish finger-pointing, it's too easy to forget that the national character-hardworking, immigrant-fueled, optimistic-was built from the bottom up. Sports, but also epitomizes many of the reasons sports matter."- Bob Costas Unforgettable as any heart-stopping game."- The Globe & Mailīass tells a story that encompasses many of the things people love about Peoples.Some of the vignettes of life for these refugees are as Study of why soccer matters as a link between disparate cultures and States.at once a stark look at the lives of the Somali refugees and a Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered."A magnificent and significant book about soccer in the United The book, One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together ISBN# 9780316396554 in Paperback by Amy Bass may be ordered in bulk quantities. Taking readers behind the tumult of this controversial team - and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to become state champions and achieved a vital sense of understanding - One Goal is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us.
While scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school's soccer coach integrated Somali kids onto his team, and their passion began to heal old wounds.
Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, One Goal tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state - and ultimately national - glory.
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