Star-studded refugee football team takes the pitch for UN

Key points

• The Gamechanging Team vividly highlights what is possible when displaced people condemned to a life on the run through no fault of their own, find safety, opportunity and a warm welcome.
• The UN refugee agency’s ‘first 11’ is made up of current professional footballers from across the world whose lives have been impacted by forced displacement, persecution or war.
• “This summer marks the biggest World Cup ever.
• It is an ideal moment for UNHCR’s Gamechanging Team to send a message of hope to fans all over the world,” said UNHCR chief Barham Salih.
• Tweet URL The team will be captained by former refugee, Bayern Munich player and Canada national team captain, Alphonso Davies, who was born in a refugee in Ghana after his parents fled war in Liberia before resettling to Canada.