The stories and roots of Kansas City’s Refugee Soccer team!

Coach Foday Kamara is a proud resident of the Historic Northeast neighborhood in Kansas City, MO where people from all over the globe live. Kamara who hails from Sierra Leone saw a need to engage the youth who are refugees here in Kansas City’s Northeast area and decided a good way to this was to have a youth refugee soccer team. So the teens having come here from all over the world found commonality in their love for soccer as refugees in a strange land. You will hear the voices of the teens speaking about their experiences as refugees and the journey that brought them here.


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