
Assyriska: A National Team Without a Nation
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Assyrians in Syria, USA, Europe, Russia and burning Iraq, tuned into their matches while their fellow Assyrians in freezing Scandinavia reached international stardom. This is the story of how a local team from a small Swedish town went national for a people without a country.
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