Amidst the ongoing human rights controversies surrounding the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup in Qatar a different kind of story emerged – one of hope, inspiration, and aspiration. Twenty-seven-year-old Awer Mabil, a member of Australia’s national Socceroos squad, reflected on his own journey to the highest ranks of the beautiful game, hoping tocreate a new narrative around refugees and forced migration. Mabil’s parents fled the civil war in South Sudan in 1994 and he was born in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya the following year. Mabil first learned to play football in Kakuma, where he and his fri…