{"id":215414,"date":"2019-06-07T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T18:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=215414"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:54:31","slug":"syrians-may-debut-on-brazilian-soccer-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/syrians-may-debut-on-brazilian-soccer-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrians may debut on Brazilian soccer on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Two Syrian refugees that came to Brazil last year to practice soccer may debut in championship games this weekend, according to information released on Friday (7) by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad <em>(pictured, R)<\/em> and Hafith <em>(L)<\/em> are part of the group of five Syrians that arrived in Brazil last year to practice in <a href=\"http:\/\/academiaperolasnegras.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P\u00e9rolas Negras<\/a>, soccer team and school in the city of Paty do Alferes, Rio de Janeiro, from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNHCR, both players are registered at Campeonato Carioca S\u00e9rie B2 Sub-20 and may debut on Sunday (9) at Alzir\u00e3o stadium in Itabora\u00ed in Greater Rio de Janeiro. P\u00e9rolas Negras faces Bela Vista at 12h45 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad is 17 years old and was born in Homs, Syria. He left his home country before he was 10 because of the civil conflict. \u201cEvery year before the war, a team used to take ten boys to practice in Qatar. I was selected but couldn\u2019t go because then the war started,\u201d said the midfielder. According to the UNHCR, he is a big Neymar fan.<\/p>\n<p>Hafith was born Daara, Southwest Syria, and was nicknamed Marcelo because he is a great fan of the Brazilian left-back who plays for Real Madrid. \u201cI\u2019m feeling very good here [in Brazil]. My only difficulty, really, is the language, but I know I\u2019ll overcome that challenge, and everything is going to be fine,\u201d he said, according to UNHCR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-215408\">Ana Rosa Alves\/UNIC<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two young refugees are fit to play for the team P\u00e9rolas Negras against Bela Vista for the Campeonato Carioca S\u00e9rie B2 Sub-20. The game takes place at 12h45 in Itabora\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":215408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[4647,1902,3561,27568,2541,432,1829],"class_list":{"0":"post-215414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-perolas-negras","9":"tag-refugees","10":"tag-rio-de-janeiro","11":"tag-rio-de-janeiro-en-2","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-syria","14":"tag-unhcr"},"wps_subtitle":"Two young refugees are fit to play for the team P\u00e9rolas Negras against Bela Vista for the Campeonato Carioca S\u00e9rie B2 Sub-20. The game takes place at 12h45 in Itabora\u00ed.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}