SportsUnited is the State Department’s exchange program promoting diplomacy and cultural awareness through sports.
Sports United brought 18 girls and six coaches from Bolivia, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories and South Africa to New York City and Washington, D.C., to attend an honorary ceremony with the Secretary, play soccer with their American peers and watch the final U.S. Women’s National Team game before the Women’s World Cup. The young women came to the FC Harlem field where FC Harlem coaches and the Head Coach of Army’s men soccer team took them through drills and ended with a match.
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