'Outcasts United'

Outcasts United is a book/movie about a group o refugees in the United States that formed a soccer team. Their team name is the 'fugees' short for refugees.

In January of 2007, New York Times reporter Warren St. John wrote about the Fugees, a team of soccer-playing misfits from a dozen war-ravaged countries transplanted to the small Georgia town of Clarkston. The article prompted a huge response -- tons of donated cash and equipment, plus a book contract for St. John and a movie deal that financed a team bus and a new school, the Fugees Academy.

Here is the NPR story.