{"id":19827,"date":"2022-12-16T23:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T23:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/16\/from-refugee-camp-to-the-world-cup-the-syrian-players-hoping-to-make-it-big\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T23:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T23:43:49","slug":"from-refugee-camp-to-the-world-cup-the-syrian-players-hoping-to-make-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=19827","title":{"rendered":"From refugee camp to the World Cup: The Syrian players hoping to make it big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Four Syrian football players living in the Zaatari refugee camp were given a shot of their lifetime in 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Brazilian NGO Viva Rio chose them out of 350 players to join the Black Pearl\u2019s Academy in Rio de Janeiro to train to play football professionally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">At ages as young as 14, they moved to Brazil, leaving behind their families and loved ones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Four years later, they are now in Doha, attending the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and hoping to find a future in professional football in the Gulf country. This is their story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-64004382?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Four Syrian football players living in the Zaatari refugee camp were given a shot of their lifetime in 2018. Brazilian NGO Viva Rio chose them out of 350 players &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}