How a Soccer Team United a Changing American City

The Takeaway | Feb 27, 2018

What happens when a very white city, in the whitest state in the country, gets an influx of thousands of refugees from Somalia? Well, a lot.

Through the bad and good, the city of Lewiston, Maine had one thing that could bring its people together: Soccer.

Amy Bass chronicles the story of the Lewiston High School boys soccer team in the new book, “One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game That Brought Together a Divided Town."

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