United through football: The Wageningen refugee soccer team

United through football: The Wageningen refugee soccer team

Every Wednesday evening, the football team gets together

With 5 billion fans worldwide and over 250 million players across 200 countries, football remains the world’s most popular sport. In Europe, many organizations are using football to engage newly arrived refugees, an initiative strongly supported by the UN Refugee Agency. Today, we hear from Siem van Eck, who visited one such initiative in the Netherlands.

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