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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 28 Episode 2: There is no pitch to train on “Come on! Let’s go to the playground.” says Bochdan. A tanned boy named José asks my new friend, “Are we going to set up a football team to play in the school league this year?” “I don’t think so. We don’t have anywhere to train.” answers a boy named Mohamed. “What do you mean we don’t? We could train on the courts at the sports center.” says Bochdan. “You can forget those courts, you know they won’t let us in.” says Mohamed. “You’re wrong, we can use the courts. Those courts are for all the kids in the neighborhood and we are kids from this neighbor- hood, so those courts were built for us. The problem is the Ecuado- rians are always there and there are more of them than us. And they are stronger. They are the ones who won’t let us train there, but it’s just not fair.” says José. “But they are from our neighborhood too, so they could say that it’s their right to play on the courts too.” Bochdan replies. “They are foreigners,” says José, “because they weren’t born here.” “I wasn’t born here either and I feel like this is my home,” Mo- hamed answers, slightly annoyed, “and the same thing goes for Raul who is from another neighborhood. I’m both Moroccan and from this neighborhood - and don’t you talk about your ‘village’ in Ex- tremadura? I think we can be from several places at the same time.” “Do you remember Pedro and his cousins at school? The ones who lived in my building? Their parents were one of the first people to come to the neighborhood when there were just a few houses. When we started our first year in school they had to leave the neigh- borhood. What would happen if they came back and wanted to play on the courts? According to José, because they were born here they are from the neighborhood more than Mohamed, they could come back and say they had the right to play there. Isn’t that so, José?” Bo- chdan smiles and gives José a little shove to ease the tension. “What would we do then? “