Everybody Is Welcome Here.'
Briefly

PORTLAND, Ore.The soccer coach looked out at two dozen or so of his players and felt nervousness course through him like a rip current.His heart pounded, and his voice felt unsteady.Kaig Lightner (pronounced Cage, a phonetic shortening of his initials K and J) had been thinking of this moment since the summer of 2013 when he founded the Portland Community Football Club, a program for teaching soccer to mostly first- and second-generation immigrant youth who lived in his city's most distressed neighborhoods.
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