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Socceroos Spotlight Refugee Players for World Refugee Day

6/18/2026

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The Socceroos featured refugee players—Mo Touré, Nestory Irankunda, Awer Mabil and Milos Degenek—in a video for refugee week and World Refugee Day.
Touré’s family works with Australia for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees charity to aid displaced people.
Mo Touré arrived in Australia at seven months old in 2004 after his parents fled Liberia in 1989, walked 18 days to Guinea and spent 14 years there receiving UNHCR aid.

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The Socceroos featured refugee players—Mo Touré, Nestory Irankunda, Awer Mabil and Milos Degenek—in a video for refugee week and World Refugee Day.
Touré’s family works with Australia for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees charity to aid displaced people.
Mo Touré arrived in Australia at seven months old in 2004 after his parents fled Liberia in 1989, walked 18 days to Guinea and spent 14 years there receiving UNHCR aid.