Friday, 22 January 2016

Perpetua Nkwocha coaching Afghan migrants in Sweden


Nigerian football star Perpetua Nkwocha knows what it's like to find yourself many miles from home, making a new life.



Her playing career took her from Nigeria to China and then to Sweden - where she has been based in the northern town of Skelleftea for more than seven years.

Now the multiple African champion and African Women's Footballer of the Year is helping others who have made a very different journey, to the same destination.

She is player-coach for a local team, but much of her spare time this winter is being taken up coaching a group of Afghan teenagers, some of the hundreds of young migrants who have arrived in the town in recent months.



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