Jacobo Gomez, a migrant from Ecuador, plays on a soccer team with other migrants. Here, he’s about to pass to a teammate during a scrimmage last Wednesday at Chicago Indoor Sports complex. The team will take part in an upcoming tournament dubbed the “Refugee World Cup.” (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time)
I Andrés Matos and Jacobo Gómez have only known each other briefly, but watching them together on a soccer field, they look like they’ve long been in cahoots.
They celebrate together, laugh generously when one slips up and tell each other what to do better the next time without hesitation.
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