"They told me that if they found me, they would do something bad to me, that they would kill me. From that moment, everything became complicated."
"Football has been a part of Sylla's life since childhood. I kicked a ball against the walls of my house to take my mind off the social problems."
Ibrahime Sylla, a young asylum seeker from Guinea, faces persecution and violence, prompting him to flee to Mexico, where he realized his dreams as a soccer player for Necaxa. His tumultuous journey through ten countries, including a dangerous crossing of the Darien Gap, highlights the extreme hardships faced by refugees. Despite the fear and violence he experienced at home, where ethnic conflicts heightened after a military coup, he turned to football as a source of hope, culminating in what he calls his 'Mexican dream' in Aguascalientes.
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