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Thon Luony warmed up before a game in Miami recently. Trying to remain in the country on a student visa, the Sudanese man enrolled at a community college in Florida. It’s his fourth school in three years.
(Rhona Wise for The Boston Globe)
Recruited to chase a dream
Young ballplayers from Africa feel poorly used as they are bounced from school to school; though, fearing deportation, many keep quiet in hopes they can have a better life in the US
Thon Luony warmed up before a game in Miami recently. Trying to remain in the country on a student visa, the Sudanese man enrolled at a community college in Florida. It’s his fourth school in three years.
(Rhona Wise for The Boston Globe)
When the dream makers found them, one boy was living barefoot in an Ethiopian refugee camp, the other languishing on the streets of an émigré enclave in Australia. (Full article: 3245 words)
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