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Mali,
North Africa
Badara Dia, who goes by "Papa Dia", plays and coaches
soccer here in Arlington. He is the head coach for the boys and girls soccer
teams at Kenmore Middle School. He also coaches the Arlington Travel Soccer
Club's U10 Arlington Strikers White team.
Papa returned home to his home in Mali, West Africa, this summer and took
leftover jerseys from the Arlington Player Development Clinics.
• Papa Dia in Mali -
Summer 2007 •
NW Lions Support of Soccer in Mali
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Madaoua,
Niger, North Africa
Christopher Spangler is a former ASA player, coach, referee and
ATSC player. He worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madaoua, Niger,
in North Africa from September 2005 to September 2007.
While in Madaoua, Chris coached one of the first middle-school girls soccer
teams. See his An African Soccer Adventure story of the girls' trip to their
first "travel" soccer game.
• An African Soccer
Adventure •
Madaoua Soccer Photos
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