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NameKarim and Yves
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Country of OriginCameroon
Destination CountrySpain

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s-1 Karim and Yves trekked for years through Africa from Cameroon before arriving in Spain where they now play football and rugby, realising a life-long ambition even if their daily lives are still a struggle.
s-2 They're not the only ones to have stepped onto Spanish shores with dreams of making it big in the sporting world.
s-3 Associations and migrants say roughly a quarter of new arrivals' main reason for coming is to play professionally.
s-4 But a large majority are soon brought back down to earth with a bang when faced with the long search for residency papers while eking out a living.
s-5 Sense of belonging Karim Issa Abdou and Yves Kepse Tchonang are arguably among the lucky ones.
s-6 While their lives are totally separate, they share many similarities.
s-7 Both 27-years-old, they clambered over the barbed wire and razor-sharp blades of the triple barrier between Morocco and Spain's overseas territory of Melilla, one of only two land borders between Africa and the European Union.
s-8 Karim now plays for Alma de Africa (Heart and Soul of Africa in English), a football team in southern Jerez de la Frontera composed almost exclusively of migrants in the second division of the regional league.
s-9 Yves plays at front row at Rugby Club Valencia more than 700 kilometres (450 miles) away in eastern Spain, in the first division of the regional league.
s-10 While they're not professional, which means they aren't paid for playing, both are surrounded by associations that can provide legal and housing support.
s-11 Crucially, being part of a team has given meaning to otherwise difficult lives, they say.
s-12 Alma de Africa has given me stability, says Karim, sipping a beer at a bar in Jerez, large headphones round his neck ready to play music like Cameroon's makossa or rap by France's Booba.
s-13 A self-confessed brawler when the team was formed in 2015, he says he has since settled down.
s-14 Robbed, injured Born in a nomadic family in Ngaoundere in northern Cameroon, Karim says he left when he was only around 10 years old with a friend.
s-15 It took him some four years to go through Nigeria, Niger and Algeria before arriving in Morocco, where he lived another three years in the Gourougou Mountain that overlooks Melilla.
s-16 Along the way, the Zinedine Zidane fan earned money to keep going, doing odd jobs, just like Yves, who cuts an imposing, brawny figure.
s-17 One of seven siblings, Yves left home in the western city of Bafoussam in 2012 to play rugby.
s-18 In Niger, he recalls many instances of employers refusing to pay him and threatening to call the police.
s-19 Both recount being robbed of their possessions along the way, as do other Alma de Africa members.
s-20 When you're a kid, there are people who take your phone, everything you have, the rucksack, the clothes, the money, and you have to start afresh, says Karim, a contagious laugh always at the ready despite difficult recollections.

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