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One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together

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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 of their quest for state–and in the long run 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 forestall coming, which was a national story. Even as scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school’s soccer coach integrated Somali kids onto his team, and their passion started to heal old wounds. Taking readers at the back of the tumult of this controversial team–and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to turn into state champions and achieved a very important sense of figuring out–ONE GOAL is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us.

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