One goal : a coach, a team, and the game that brought a divided town together

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Label

One goal : a coach, a team, and the game that brought a divided town together

Title remainder

a coach, a team, and the game that brought a divided town together

Statement of responsibility

Amy Bass

Title variation

1 goal

Creator

• Bass, Amy

Author

• Bass, Amy

Subject

• Lewiston High School (Lewiston, Me.) -- Soccer | History
• Race relations
• Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation
• Soccer -- Maine | Lewiston -- History
• Somalis -- Maine | Lewiston
• Refugees -- Somalia
• Lewiston (Me.) -- Social conditions

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

796.334/620974182

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult