One goal
Subtitle: a coach, a team, and the game that brought a divided town together
By: Amy Bass
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780316396547
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Race relations; Somalis; Cultural assimilation; Immigrants; Lewiston High School (Lewiston, Me.); Social conditions; Soccer; Refugees; History
Description: "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. When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. 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. 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"--
Table of contents: title: Why not us?; title: We have to go back; title: Welcome to vacationland; title: Many and one; title: I still say Somalia; title: Grind mode; title: I live my thank-you; title: 1-2-3 Pamoja Ndugu; title: Lewiston pure; title: Saints, martyrs, and summer soccer; title: Many nations, one team; title: Inshallah, we got this; title: Our house; title: Straight red; title: Do not retaliate; title: Everyone bleeds blue; title: Make it a good one.