原文:They fled war as child refugees, now they’re playing at World Cup 2026
世界杯适合所有人。 as it has been dubbed by FIFA, players carry historic stories of war and displacement.
In Vancouver, during the opening week of the 2026 edition of FIFA’s global football showpiece, Nestory Irankunda became the youngest player to score for Australia at a World Cup.
这位20岁的球员在2-0战胜土耳其队的比赛中用拳头击打角旗来庆祝,这是他向澳大利亚伟大球员蒂姆·卡希尔致敬。
庆祝活动没有展示之前发生的事情:坦桑尼亚基戈马的一个难民营,伊兰昆达的父母逃离布隆迪内战后出生在那里。 Two of his teammates carry a version of that same story onto the same pitch.
在由加拿大、墨西哥和美国主办、有 48 个国家参加的规模最大的世界杯中,至少有九名球员讲述了难民或流离失所的故事。 Together with others, they were brought together last month by the UN refugee agency under a campaign called the Gamechanging Team.
The UNHCR says 117 million people are displaced worldwide, including almost 49 million children.
联合国难民事务高级专员巴勒姆·萨利赫在宣布改变游戏规则的团队的同一份声明中称本届世界杯是“一个理想的时刻……向全世界球迷传递希望的信息”。
对于那些有着极其相似的过去的球员来说,这一信息在今年夏天的一百多场比赛中得到了体现,在足球史上吸引了最多的观众面前。
Here are those nine of the players who reached the finals – along with two more who missed out – and where their stories come from.
阿方索·戴维斯 — 加拿大
Davies was born in 2000 in Buduburam refugee camp, Ghana, after his parents fled Liberia’s civil war; the family resettled in Edmonton, Canada, when he was five. In March 2021 he became the first footballer named a UNHCR Global Goodwill Ambassador. “Whilst the refugee camp provided a safe place for my family when they fled war, I often wonder where I would have been if I ha