Rabuni Camp — The football teams are back in their refugee camps in Algeria, and no, FIFA has taken no note of this tournament. And the television cameras are all at the Euro cup.
These boys played well enough, even if nobody was around to watch. "They would slip in the first matches but this is understandable because they had never ever played football on grass before," Mohamed Sid Ahmed Bugleida, sports director of the Sahrawi ministry of youth and sports tells IPS. Few know of this ministry in the Western Sahara, let alone of the tournament.
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