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Footballer on the run (World 2016, by Mario Heller) - Swiss Press Award

Players from Team Africa warm up on the sports field in Hügelheim.
Mario Heller
Players from Team Africa warm up on the sports field in Hügelheim.
Photo / World
2016

Footballer on the run

Mario Heller

Refugees from Africa, together with student Georg Imbgraben, founded a football club in Müllheim. Among them are not only men who play for fun, but also former national team players from Gambia. The refugees are looking for a distraction from the dreary everyday life in the asylum center and the uncertainty as to whether they will even be accepted as refugees.

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Footballer on the run

Aargauer Zeitung

Photo / World
2016

Mario Heller

Refugees from Africa, together with student Georg Imbgraben, founded a football club in Müllheim. Among them are not only men who play for fun, but also former national team players from Gambia. The refugees are looking for a distraction from the dreary everyday life in the asylum center and the uncertainty as to whether they will even be accepted as refugees.

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Mario Heller / Swiss Press Award

Mario Heller

Fotograf, Berlin, 1991

Mario Heller ist ein Schweizer Fotograf, dessen Arbeit sich auf die Beziehungen zwischen sozialen Strukturen und kulturellen Hintergründen konzentriert. Nach seinem Studium am MAZ – Die Schweizer Journalistenschule mit Fokus auf Dokumentarfotografie ist er als Fotograf und Bildredakteur für verschiedene Magazine und Zeitungen in Deutschland und der Schweiz tätig.

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