EPISODE · Feb 27, 2018 · 3 MIN
One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together by Amy Bass
from Get Your Favorite Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Sports · host Theo Kiehn
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together Author: Amy Bass Narrator: Amy Bass, Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 27, 2018 Genres: Sports Publisher's 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together Author: Amy Bass Narrator: Amy Bass, Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 27, 2018 Genres: Sports Publisher's 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.
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