Offside Competition: Win “Outcasts United” by Warren St. John
By: Daryl | June 15th, 2009
Long time Offside readers will remember Bob’s post about The Fugees from January 2007. The Fugees are a soccer team in Clarkston, Georgia made up of refugee kids from all over the world. Clarkston is a small Atlanta suburb where residents had some trouble adapting to the sudden influx of refugees in their once sleepy town, and so The Fugees found themselves square in the middle of a cultural battle. The story of the team vs the town was the subject of an excellent NY Time article by Warren St. John.
That article is now a book by Warren St. John titled Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
Here’s how you can win: We’re interviewing Warren St. John later this week, and so we want to ask him your questions. The best two questions – as chosen by the author – will win the two books.
The author is a soccer fan (90% sure he supports Arsenal) so questions can be about things other than the content of the book.
Leave your questions for Warren St John in the comments (make sure to enter a valid email address in the comment form so we can contact you) or email your questions to daryl[at]theoffside[dot]com (with “Outcasts United” in the subject line).
There’s a good Q&A with Warren St. John on the Outcasts United website, that gives an excellent background to the book (which I’m currently halfway through reading and confirm that it’s damn good).
Last but not least, there’s a benefit for The Fugees in Washington, D.C. this coming Saturday (June 20th at 1pm). I’ll let Warren St. John explain…
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Before writing this book, Did you ever consider the cultural boundaries that football crosses? or was it something that you learned as you went?
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Do you think there would have been less problems if this team The Fugees was located in Europe?
If you were a football manager and you had 100 million euros (don’t know how much dollar that is) free to spend on one player, which player would you buy and why?Posted from
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How talented ar e the kids? Is it possible one will be scouted by a professional club or even make it to Europe?
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Probably bad form for me to try to win, huh? Too bad. I may just have to buy the book.
Related topic, a friend of mine saw St. John speak and said he was fantastic. I wanted to go when he was in Seattle but I had to teach that night. But I remember being captivated by the original story and am thrilled to see this getting the publicity it deserves.
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Do you feel that, as a sport and a concept, football is the most transcendent entity in the world? Do you feel that it could be further exploited (for lack of a better word) for purposes of goodwill and peace throughout the globe?
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In some parts of Africa, native agents have convinced families to send their children to Europe on the promises of them getting a contract with a European club, while in reality they are taking the family’s money and leaving the youth “clubless” and without their passports to return home. Do you feel that these players are in a similar situation to that of the refugee players, without a country and friends?
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What impact do you feel The Fugees have had, and will continue to have, on racism/cultural differences, especially with regards to sport.
In the NY Times article, there was a rich team called Conchorde Fire. How big an impact is money is football, especially at a grassroots level. Do you feel that the growing prices of equipment, and players (in terms of contracts and transfers) has a negative impact on the game?
As an Arsenal fan, who do you think they should sign?
What more could be done to:
a) Encourage teams such as The Fugees, and promote the concepts behind it’s creation.
b) Address the issue of racism in sport
c) Promote football as a way to encourage goodwill and peace.Who’s your favorite footballer?
What can the average person do to help the plight of The Fugees, as both a football team, and as a group of refugees?
I’m an inquisitive person =)
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What was the process or timeline of the Fugees becoming accepted by the local community, if they were at all?
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another one:
Do you think that the example of The Fugees will help other refugees settle in to their communities, and help others (long time residents) to accept them?What role does/can football play in the rehabilitation (for lack of a better word) of refugees, especially children?
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How did the town react to the refugees when they first arrived and what changed after the first article was published?
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What parallels, if any, do you see between the Fugees kids teams and the Homeless (adult) soccer teams (profiled in the movie “Kicking it”)?
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If Cristiano Ronaldo was an animal, which animal would he be and why?
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