Great Moments in Journalism: You Could Also Say They've Been Kicked In The Balls By Life
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Today's Moment comes from what's actually not a terrible Times piece about a group of refugees resettled in Clarkston, Ga. It focuses on the soccer program in which they participate. As expected, the refugees have not been universally well-received:
There were even incidents involving referees. Two linesmen were reprimanded by a head referee during a pregame lineup in October for snickering when the name Mohammed Mohammed was called.
Ms. Mufleh tells her players to try their best to ignore these slights. When the other side loses its cool, she tells them, it is a sign of weakness.
Ms. Mufleh is just as fatalistic about bad calls. In her entire coaching career, she tells her players, she has never seen a call reversed because of arguing.
The Fugees are perhaps better equipped to accept this advice than most. Their lives, after all, have been defined by bad calls.
Like what, for example?
Some have endured unimaginable hardship to get here: squalor in refugee camps, separation from siblings and parents. One saw his father killed in their home.
Yeah, that would qualify, we guess.
