“It feels like this whole thing was scripted for me,” Mukuba said after the game. “Coming home, playing my best ball, helping the team.”
If Mukuba's trainer, Bernard 'Bam' Blake, was actually going to write this movie, he says he already has the first page in his head. 'It would start with a kid who is going without electricity in Zimbabwe... searching for a better life.'
Andrew Mukuba’s journey began when he was nine, moving from Zimbabwe to Austin, where his mother worked as a hotel housekeeper near the UT campus.
In P.E., the class wanted to play football, and players lined up to pick teams. Nobody picked the new kid. 'I was like, 'American football, are you familiar with it?'' said Shannon Crenshaw, Mukuba's fifth-grade P.E. teacher.
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