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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Immigrant and local youth train with Borussia Dortmund World Cup winner: ‘It’s all about becoming Chicagoans’

Participants face off in a drill Wednesday during a training session hosted by German Bundesliga soccer team Borussia Dortmund with migrants and local youth at the soccer cage in Humboldt Park. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

At 15, Jose Suarez is already something of an international soccer player. First he played in his native Venezuela, then Colombia — where his family lived before immigrating — and, on Wednesday, he squared off against a World Cup winner in Humboldt Park.

He was one of several dozen teens and kids who were invited to play with professionals from Borussia Dortmund, a German soccer team visiting Chicago for a game Wednesday evening. 

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