Among the thousands of people who have crossed the Mediterranean (or the Adriatic) there are also future footballers, basketball players, runners and referees
The mirage is the same: landing on the Italian coast, the entrance gate to a new life that hopefully is better than the one from which one flees by risking everything, even death. There are those who flee poverty, hunger or war, often even from all three at the same time. The journey of hope passes through a myriad of hardships, often comes to terms with unscrupulous human traffickers and continues on an overcrowded boat adrift at sea. Among the thousands of people who have crossed the Mediterranean (or the Adriatic) there are also future footballers, basketball players, runners and referees. Here are our 10 stories of migrants who landed in Italy and were then reborn through sport.