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Nicaraguan girls enriched via soccer

By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Somewhere in the barrios of Granada, Nicaragua, a city in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, there is a young girl waiting for an opportunity. She is bright and outgoing, a fire waiting to be lit in a place where hope too often lies cold and dormant. Somewhere in Granada there are future Zoe Bouchelles and Myra Sacks. And if soccer isn't a solution to all that stands in the way of their realizing that potential, it can at least offer some of the supplies necessary for th ...

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