Outcasts United

by

Warren St. John

Luma al-Mufleh Character Analysis

The founder and coach of the Fugees program. Luma is born and raised in Amman, Jordan, and attends the American Community School in Amman. At the school, she is inspired by her volleyball coach, Rhonda Brown, who is strict and demanding but gains a lot of respect from her players and helps them improve. Luma then attends Smith College before deciding to remain in America. This decision estranges her from her family, and she is forced to provide for herself entirely. She moves to Atlanta and starts coaching a girls’ team at the YMCA based on the leadership model of Coach Brown. Luma then discovers the refugee population in Clarkston and decides to start a soccer program for refugee boys. The team eventually earns the name “the Fugees.” Luma is hard on her players and expects a lot from them: she wants them to be on time, focus, and work hard. She expects them to respect rules like no drinking or drug use, keeping their hair short, and no cursing. Luma also makes an effort to help the players outside of the soccer team by starting a tutoring program to help them with schoolwork and getting to know their families. The program does not come without its challenges, however—the players are sometimes disobedient or lazy, and at the beginning they often divide into cliques based on nationality or language. Luma also faces challenges based in discrimination when the YMCA moves them from a nicer field at the Clarkston Community Center to a gravel field covered in broken glass, which she knows would never have happened to boys with affluent families. Still, despite (and perhaps because of) these extra challenges, Luma pours herself into helping the Fugees. And on the soccer field, although Luma is harsh with her players, the ones who buy into her system respect her deeply, and she is able to tangibly improve their lives and the lives of their families.

Luma al-Mufleh Quotes in Outcasts United

The Outcasts United quotes below are all either spoken by Luma al-Mufleh or refer to Luma al-Mufleh. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Introduction Quotes

In fact, things with the Fugees were more fragile than I could have realized that day. The team had no home field. The players’ private lives were an intense daily struggle to stay afloat. They and their families had fled violence and chaos and found themselves in a place with a completely different set of values and customs.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh
Related Symbols: Fields
Page Number: 6
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She was just a woman who wanted, in her own way, to make the world a better place. She had vowed to come through for her players and their families or to come apart trying.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh
Page Number: 7
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Chapter 1 Quotes

Brown accepted that her players might not like her at first. But she was willing to wait out the hostility in the hope that her players would eventually buy in.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh, Rhonda Brown
Page Number: 13
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Chapter 4 Quotes

Soon Luma was running herself sweaty, pleasantly lost in a game with strangers. “It reminded me what I missed about my community at home,” she said. “And at the time I felt like such an outsider.”

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh
Page Number: 39
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Chapter 5 Quotes

Given the love for soccer in the refugee community, Luma wondered if the game and her team could attract some of these kids to after-school tutoring that might give them a better chance to succeed. She resolved to get help from volunteers and educators for tutoring before practices, and to require her players to attend or lose their spots on her team.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh
Page Number: 47
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With her Arabic and French, Luma was able to translate documents and answer some of their questions. She made appointments with doctors and social workers. Luma gave her cell phone number to her players and their families, and soon they were calling with requests for help.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh
Page Number: 48
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Chapter 7 Quotes

Luma also felt that if a soccer team of well-to-do sub urban kids was assigned to play on a field of sand and broken glass, their parents would call the team’s sponsors or the league—someone—to protest. The parents of the Fugees’ players were seen as powerless, she believed, so no one thought much about making the team play on such a bad field.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh
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Page Number: 58
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Chapter 9 Quotes

He would leave tutoring early or skip it altogether, acts that undermined Luma’s authority before the rest of the team. Players soon started to follow Prince’s lead and challenge her.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh, Prince
Page Number: 79
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Chapter 11 Quotes

With no siblings in the United States, and a guardian who was hardly ever home, Kanue began to view the team as his family. “The Fugees—it’s really important to me,” he said. “When I play on that team, I’m with my brothers.”

Related Characters: Kanue Biah (speaker), Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh, Barlea
Page Number: 103
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Chapter 13 Quotes

“I told her I appreciate her,” Kanue said later. “I told her thanks, and that we were going to do everything to follow the rules and give her the respect she deserves.”

Related Characters: Kanue Biah (speaker), Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh, Mandela Ziaty, Natnael
Page Number: 103
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Chapter 15 Quotes

Luma dropped her head in relief. Her players, some of them still strangers to each other, were high-fiving and shouting joyfully at the sky as they ran toward her on the bench. They seemed as surprised as she did. Luma raised her head, pulled her shoulders back, and smiled for the first time in two weeks.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh, Mandela Ziaty, Kanue Biah
Page Number: 103
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Chapter 17 Quotes

Swaney’s proposal changed the energy in the room. The council’s questions became gentler. They talked among themselves and agreed that six months sounded like a reasonable amount of time for a trial period.

There was a motion, and a second.

The motion passed unanimously. Luma nodded in thanks and stifled a smile. The Fugees, for now at least, had a home.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh, Mayor Lee Swaney
Related Symbols: Fields
Page Number: 140
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Chapter 18 Quotes

“What makes a gang different from the Fugees?” Luma asked.
“They fight.”
“They shoot each other.”
“Once you’re part of a gang, you can’t get away.”

Related Characters: Luma al-Mufleh (speaker), Tito
Page Number: 141
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Chapter 19 Quotes

It was a small, silly moment, but it also showed that boys from thirteen different countries and a wide array of ethnicities and religions and who spoke different languages were creating their own inside jokes.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh, Mohammed Mohammed
Page Number: 154
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Chapter 21 Quotes

“For a while I expected you to be like Jeremiah,” she told him. “Actually, you’re a better athlete—but you don’t have the discipline or the respect to play. You don’t respect me, and you don’t respect your team.”

Related Characters: Luma al-Mufleh (speaker), Warren St. John (speaker), Mandela Ziaty, Jeremiah Ziaty
Page Number: 165
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Chapter 28 Quotes

Pull back farther, and you got a sense of where Clarkston sat in America—tucked in a green corner of the country beneath the gray ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Pull back again, and the blue oceans came into view, then other continents and countries—Congo, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq—all looking deceptively calm. Pull back farther still and the curved horizons of the planet revealed themselves—a beautiful ball of green, white, blue, slate, and brown. Someday, somewhere down there, the Fugees would find a home.

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh, Mayor Lee Swaney
Related Symbols: Fields
Page Number: 218-219
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Epilogue Quotes

“If people can look at her and see that, that she’s human, not a saint or a superhero, and that she doesn’t—can’t—do everything or effect miracles, then maybe they can say to themselves, ‘I need to look around myself and see my neighborhood, and what is going on here and five streets over, and what I can do in terms of investing myself and my time, to be present for the people around me, and to do something positive for change in my community.’

“No one person can do everything,” Tracy said. “But we can all do something.”

Related Characters: Warren St. John (speaker), Tracy Ediger (speaker), Luma al-Mufleh
Page Number: 226
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Luma al-Mufleh Character Timeline in Outcasts United

The timeline below shows where the character Luma al-Mufleh appears in Outcasts United. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Introduction
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From the sidelines, thirty-one-year-old Luma al-Mufleh, the coach of the Fugees, tells them to concentrate, emphasizing that they need to... (full context)
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A few minutes later, the whistle sounds to begin the game. Luma sits silently, allowing the boys to play for themselves. The other coach, however, shouts at... (full context)
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The North Atlanta coach continues to shout, while Luma continues to pace, watching many of the Fugees’ shots sail over the goal. At halftime,... (full context)
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...countries only to find a place with a completely different set of values and customs. Luma is also struggling to help them as much as she can. But more than anything,... (full context)
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...who may be farsighted. He often misses the ball when he tries to kick it. Luma proudly explains to St. John that Zubaid had never missed a practice or tutoring session... (full context)
Chapter 1: Luma
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Luma al-Mufleh is born in Amman, Jordan, to a wealthy family. Luma takes after her father,... (full context)
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The al-Mufleh’s send Luma to the American Community School (ACS) in Amman, a school for the children of American... (full context)
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Near Munawar’s home is a soccer field, where Luma watches young men play from a nearby wall. Eventually, she builds up the nerve to... (full context)
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Luma plays many sports and stands out to her coaches—particularly the volleyball coach, an African American... (full context)
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...players may not like her at first, but hopes that they will eventually buy in. Luma doesn’t like Brown at all, but she doesn’t complain about the work. Luma also starts... (full context)
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As Luma grows older, she starts to “feel at odds with the strict Jordanian society in which... (full context)
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When Luma returns to Jordan before her final year at Smith, she realizes that she has become... (full context)
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After graduation, Luma stays with a friend who lives in North Carolina. She doesn’t yet have a permit... (full context)
Chapter 2: Beatrice and Her Boys
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In 1997, around the same time Luma graduates from Smith College, Beatrice Ziaty struggles to survive a civil war in Monrovia, Liberia.... (full context)
Chapter 4: Alone Down South
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Luma knows nothing of Clarkston or the refugees when she moves to nearby Decatur, only a... (full context)
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Luma’s approach isn’t universally well-received. She’s very tough and expects the girls to take responsibility for... (full context)
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Luma focuses on the team, but she is also homesick, and she misses her family. In... (full context)
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Luma decides to start her own business: a café that sells ice cream and sandwiches. She... (full context)
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One day, when visiting Talars, Luma notices a group of boys playing soccer in a nearby parking lot. She is amazed... (full context)
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Over the next few months, Luma continues to stop by Talars and join in on the soccer games. She gradually gets... (full context)
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Luma floats the idea for the program to a mother of one of the players on... (full context)
Chapter 5: The Fugees Are Born
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...really embrace the center, in turn signing up for English and computer classes there. When Luma starts her program, parents sign their kids up in droves. (full context)
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In June of 2004, Luma arrives at the center for tryouts, and so does Jeremiah Ziaty—defying Beatrice and sneaking out... (full context)
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...around. Jeremiah begs her to play, but she is skeptical and asks to meet with Luma. Jeremiah asks Luma to meet his mother, and Luma assures Beatrice that she will “treat... (full context)
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During the early practices, the boys slowly tell Luma more and more about their pasts. Luma discovers that Jeremiah watched his father be beaten... (full context)
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Luma also notes that many of the refugees were in limbo for a long time prior... (full context)
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The first season, the Fugees play in a recreational league. Luma teaches them the basics of organized games. When she starts to run drills, she notes... (full context)
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Luma starts to get to know the boys’ parents, most of whom are single mothers. She... (full context)
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One afternoon, when Luma is driving Jeremiah home, he admits that he’s hungry, but it’s “that time of the... (full context)
Chapter 6: “Coach Says It’s Not Good”
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...of refugee kids like them. Bien loves soccer, and Grace offers to ask the coach, Luma, whether he can join. Bien is excited; he can’t wait to tell his brothers about... (full context)
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At practice, Grace asks Luma if Bien can join the Fugees. Luma gets a lot of new kids and knows... (full context)
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...also changes the balance of the team, particularly in terms of shared languages and culture. Luma makes all of the boys speak English with each other, and when she divides the... (full context)
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The Fugees also start to compete for Luma’s approval, as she is like a stand-in mother. Two of the most talented players on... (full context)
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One of the players, Yousph Woldeyesus, recounts that Luma said “we’re all foreigners, and this is a team where everybody unites,” threatening to kick... (full context)
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Luma continues to grow close to her players’ families, particularly as they all feel hostility from... (full context)
Chapter 7: Get Lost
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...near the field, the board wants the Y to hire guards. The Y refuses, and Luma receives a call from the YMCA saying that the Community Center will no longer allow... (full context)
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Luma finds an unused field a few miles away and borrows a bus from the Y... (full context)
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Luma tries to put the best face on a bad situation: it is a convenient and... (full context)
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Luma realizes she needs help, and hires a woman named Tracy Ediger, who had moved to... (full context)
Chapter 8: “I Want to Be Part of the Fugees!”
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...Africa.” Kids begin to prepare a few weeks in advance, jogging and getting in shape. Luma is coaching three different teams: the Under Thirteens, Under Fifteens, and Under Seventeens. (full context)
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There are veterans returning to each team, but Luma also needs some newcomers. Luma learns from experience that she needs about a third of... (full context)
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Luma’s three teams have their own needs. The Under Seventeens are the most mature, and in... (full context)
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The Under Fifteens are different: they are very talented but often disobey Luma. Earlier in the summer, Luma sent around word that she expected her players to cut... (full context)
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Tryouts begin on a hot August afternoon. Luma and Tracy take down the boys’ names and ages, then Luma divides them into two... (full context)
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After the game is over, Luma circles the boys up and tells Prince that if he does not cut his hair... (full context)
Chapter 9: Figure It Out So You Can Fix It
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Luma’s hair rule sets off a debate among the Under Fifteen team. Prince refuses to cut... (full context)
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Luma was already lenient with Prince during the previous season because of his talent. He skipped... (full context)
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...for all teams begin with twenty-five minutes of running laps, and if the boys misbehave Luma runs them to exhaustion. She then leads them through sit-ups, push-ups, leg lifts, and bicycle... (full context)
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After exercises, Luma leads drills, then ends the practice with a scrimmage. Finally able to play, the boys... (full context)
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...do their laps around the field. As soon as the younger boys pass outside of Luma’s field of vision, they start to walk instead of run, picking up speed as they... (full context)
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...continue to run and run for forty minutes before they ask what they did wrong. Luma blows her whistle and tells them that they would no longer run laps around the... (full context)
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The Under Fifteens also test Luma. Even though Prince no longer on the team, he stops by practices with friends, smoking... (full context)
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...the wrong crowd. She doesn’t like the way he dresses or acts, and she calls Luma when he stays out late or acts up, so she can enforce the rules and... (full context)
Chapter 10: Meltdown
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...games, so the Fugees host home matches at a field fifteen minutes away by car. Luma gets a YMCA bus to transport her players, but if they are late to meet... (full context)
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When Luma meets the bus at the field, only nine players have shown up—two short of a... (full context)
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The boys join the warmups, but Luma stands off to the side, giving no instructions. Kanue Biah, a veteran member of the... (full context)
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...is blocked by the Phoenix goalie. Fornatee fumes to his teammates at half-time, frustrated that Luma isn’t doing her job. He says that they have to play for themselves—that Luma can’t... (full context)
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...himself ejected from the game. The Phoenix continue to score, the Fugees are lost without Luma, and the game ends 7-2. After the game, Luma calls to them to get back... (full context)
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Luma tells St. John the issues: the boys show up to tutoring late, they’re disrespectful, they... (full context)
Chapter 11: “How Am I Going to Start All Over?”
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Luma’s decision to cancel the Under Fifteens season is hard on her players, and especially on... (full context)
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...up three goals in his first season. Once, when the Fugees were down three players, Luma moved Kanue to striker and discovered that he was a good offensive weapon. The Fugees... (full context)
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Over his two years with the team, Kanue became devoted to the Fugees and Luma, helping with the younger team and working harder than anyone else in practices. With no... (full context)
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The Saturday after Luma cancels the season, she takes Kanue, Mandela, and another player named Natnael to the movies.... (full context)
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Luma has doubts: while they hold tryouts, they would forfeit two games, and they would have... (full context)
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In the meantime, Luma still has two other teams to coach. The Thirteens’ first two games did not go... (full context)
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...The Fugees quickly gain a 2-0 lead thanks to goals from Jeremiah and Qendrim, but Luma isn’t satisfied by halftime. She tells her players that they’re starting to get lazy and... (full context)
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In the second half, they put on a show. Josiah scores, and after Luma moves Bien from defense to offense, he makes an amazing bicycle kick. Jeremiah scores again,... (full context)
Chapter 13: Trying Again
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Luma divides the boys into two teams and watches them play, offering one boy wearing sandals... (full context)
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Luma does note some good raw talent, and she starts to write down which players might... (full context)
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Luma tells them that if they still want to revive the team, they can show up... (full context)
Chapter 14: The Fifteens Fight
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Luma leads two standard practices for the new Under Fifteens team, but for the third, she... (full context)
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Luma also worries specifically about Mandela, who had been quiet and angry at practice. He is... (full context)
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Fornatee hears about the scrimmage and decides to approach Luma to ask to rejoin the team. When Luma arrives, she tells Fornatee to go away... (full context)
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...through the defense and fires a perfect shot. By halftime, the score is still tied. Luma tells the Fifteens, “You’re outhustling them—keep it up.” On the other side of the field,... (full context)
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...again. A few minutes later, Kanue is tackled by one of the older players, but Luma doesn’t blow her whistle. With the ball across the field, Kanue then slides into the... (full context)
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The match ends 3-2: the Seventeens win. Luma tells the Fifteens that they had played a decent game but tells Kanue that if... (full context)
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Luma then turns to where Fornatee had been sitting. But the boys are no longer there—Fornatee... (full context)
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The next day, Luma drives down to City Hall to ask Mayor Swaney whether they can use another field,... (full context)
Chapter 15: Go Fugees!
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The morning of the Fifteens first official game, Luma throws up. Her nerves are “frayed”; she’s terrified that the boys will be humiliated, and... (full context)
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Luma’s pregame speech is short: no cussing, and no tackling from behind. She doesn’t want her... (full context)
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At halftime, Luma is relieved, but tries not to let it show. She tells her players that they... (full context)
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...break free again. This time he charges the box and scores the goal himself, following Luma’s advice. Tito and the two volunteers shout in celebration: Fugees are ahead, 4-2.  (full context)
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Luma is amazed: her players, many of whom are still strangers to each other, are high-fiving... (full context)
Chapter 16: Gunshots
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Luma is shaken and worries about other gang members showing up to practice to avenge the... (full context)
Chapter 17: The “Soccer People”
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The following Tuesday, a council meeting is called to order at the Clarkston Community Center. Luma politely requests the use of Armistead field, explaining that the field at Indian Creek is... (full context)
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Luma answers their questions, and Mayor Swaney interjects to point out that the field at Armistead... (full context)
Chapter 18: Playing on Grass
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Luma has a discussion with her players about the dangers of gangs. The boys recognize that... (full context)
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Luma says she understands the appeal of gangs, particularly in terms of having protection when walking... (full context)
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This leads Luma to her segue that the Fugees have a new home field at Milam Park. It... (full context)
Chapter 19: Who Are the Kings?
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...boys begin to chant together, “Who are the kings?” “The Fugees!” “Who is the queen?” “Luma!” Luma shakes her head in confusion, and the boys tumble to the ground, laughing. St.... (full context)
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Luma is also getting to know her team better. Bien is like “a secret weapon” she... (full context)
Chapter 20: Showdown at Blue Springs
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Trailing 1-0 at halftime, Luma tells her players that they’re playing “lazy soccer” and allowing the other team to push... (full context)
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...and kicks the ball clear. The referee then blows his whistle to end the game. Luma is thrilled—her team played as a unit and came from behind to win the game.... (full context)
Chapter 21: Coming Apart
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...teammates and makes a run for the goal, but each time he fails. At halftime, Luma benches Mandela and tries to give her players some guidance. In the second half, the... (full context)
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Luma drives Natnael and Mandela back to Clarkston in her own car. She turns to Natnael,... (full context)
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Luma asks Natnael what he would do with this kid, if he were the coach. Mandela... (full context)
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When Luma drops Mandela off, she tells him that he is a good athlete, but that he... (full context)
Chapter 22: Hanging On at Home
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...A few days later, Beatrice overhears Mandela tell Jeremiah that he wants to talk to Luma. Beatrice tries to inquire why he wants to talk to her, but he shuts her... (full context)
Chapter 23: The Dikoris
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After her falling-out with Mandela, Luma tries to regroup. She doesn’t have much time for anything outside of coaching and helping... (full context)
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On the coming weekend, the Under Thirteens will play an undefeated team in Athens. Luma believes that the team has a chance, particularly now that she had discovered a secret... (full context)
Chapter 24: “What Are You Doing Here?”
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...October 21, the Under Thirteens pile into the YMCA bus and set out for Athens. Luma follows in her car, but about an hour into the drive, a police car pulls... (full context)
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By this point, Tracy had turned the bus around. Luma convinces the policeman to let her give the team’s player cards to the bus driver... (full context)
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The Fugees arrive at the game, while Luma arrives at the Walton County Jail. When the clerk notes Luma’s foreign name, she asks,... (full context)
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After the game, Tracy returns to the Walton County Jail and pays Luma’s bail. When she gets on the team bus, the boys tell her they lost 5-0.... (full context)
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Back in Clarkston, Luma gets a call from Grace Balegamire’s little brother, who is unhappy at home while his... (full context)
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The boy wonders how Luma can be at his house if she had been in jail. She says that Tracy... (full context)
Chapter 25: Halloween
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On Halloween, Luma surprises the boys by taking them trick-or-treating in a wealthy part of Decatur. It is... (full context)
Chapter 26: The Fifteens’ Final Game
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...The Fugees play the early minutes “in a daze.” By halftime they are down 2-0. Luma says that the other team is not faster or better than the Fugees: they are... (full context)
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One player says that he hates when Luma stops coaching them, as then they’re doomed to lose. Sebajden says that they’re playing like... (full context)
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At the end of the game, Luma is not angry or yelling, but she is very serious. She says that it is... (full context)
Chapter 27: My Rules, My Way
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In contrast to the Fifteens, the Thirteens have really improved, which Luma attributes to the fact that they followed her rules and drills. They also look out... (full context)
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...The Fugees are on the attack, and they quickly take a 1-0 lead. At halftime, Luma tells them to score even more, keep calm, and have fun. Soon, Jeremiah controls a... (full context)
Chapter 28: Tornado Cup
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Luma leads an intense week of practice that culminates in a match between the Under Thirteens... (full context)
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...start to lose confidence, and Blue Springs scores. The Fugees are losing 1-0. At halftime, Luma is livid. She is angry that they talked a big game, but Blue Springs is... (full context)
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The Fugees return to the field, more focused and determined to prove Luma wrong. They go on the attack several times, until Josiah is able to score. They... (full context)
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...minutes later, Jeremiah takes a cannon shot from fifteen yards out, scoring a beautiful goal. Luma tells them that their first half “sucked so bad,” but that she almost had a... (full context)
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...Fugees losing. The next day, the Fugees are playing another team called the Concorde Fire. Luma learns that if they win the game, they’d go to the finals. Luma tells the... (full context)
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...With eight minutes left in the half, Jeremiah carves through the Fire defense and scores. Luma gathers them at halftime and tells them about the adjustments she wants. She reminds them... (full context)
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...defense and sends the ball sailing over Eldin’s fingertips with only a few moments left. Luma is angry—she tells the boys that they had the other team at 2-1 but couldn’t... (full context)
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The holidays approach rapidly. Luma tells the Under Thirteens and Under Fifteens that she will enter the boys in a... (full context)
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Luma spends Christmas visiting her players’ families and delivering boxes of food. The day after Christmas,... (full context)
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Luma calls Mayor Swaney, but he won’t take her call. Later, Luma discovers that the letter... (full context)
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In the meantime, Luma has to find a place to practice. She logs onto Google Earth to try and... (full context)
Epilogue
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Luma and Mandela reconcile gradually. She tells him that it would be a good idea for... (full context)
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...they don’t meet academic expectations. Additionally, local public schools continue to fail the refugee population. Luma discovers one of her young players received an A in English, yet she knows the... (full context)
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Many of the boys stay in touch with Luma, and even come back to Georgia on occasion to spend time at her home. Luma,... (full context)
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...the Fugees in large and small amounts, including a bus. Nike provides equipment and uniforms. Luma has more funds to run her program and works to build a tutoring center and... (full context)
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Luma is also frequently approached by teachers for advice on dealing with struggling kids. She says... (full context)