November 10, 2019, Bronx, NY, At the NY Dragons' semifinal league match, Jeffery Konvelbo, originally from Burkina Faso, awaits the signal to come onto the field.
"On a Saturday morning last September, Samuel Komolafe-Nath stood next to his older brother on the sidelines of a pickup game on Staten Island’s North Shore. The weekly soccer match brings together players from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and of course Liberia, which counts a significant diaspora on the island. The 18-year old Komolafe-Nath, wearing a FC Barcelona No.10 Lionel Messi jersey, patiently awaits the moment to come onto the field for the first time since arriving here a week earlier from Lagos. He moved back to Staten Island, where he was born, after 15 years in Nigeria. ..."
Africas Is a Country
September 14, 2019, Bronx, NY, Abubakar Ahmed Ali, who had several caps with the Nigerian national soccer team in the 1970s, shows off his silver medal from the 1978 All Africa Games.
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