Bulldogs reps reckon it’s a win-win, too, with their general manager of community (which is totally a thing) Fayssal Sari saying “when families start to go to football matches they sit in the same spot and they meet other people because they are united in their support for a team… It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, or from Sudan or Syria, sport unifies people.”
Showing that kind of inclusion is sure to net a fair few young fans, and youth worker Taha Marabani says they’ll take the game and run with it:
“A lot of newly arrived migrants who come here come from very different backgrounds don’t have very much in common with other school students so football is a really good way to unite them, to get them talking and that itself leads to finding more common interests so it is very powerful.”
Bayern stars with the refugee kids before today’s game #RefugeesWelcome #MiaSanMia pic.twitter.com/1PR5WrogeQ
— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) September 12, 2015
Story: Fairfax.
Photo: Mark Kolbe / Getty.
