A unique chapter in history started in Brooklyn Park last week, as the Hmong Futbol Federation and local club Karen FC played two friendlies at Prairie Seed Academy. What looked like another day of soccer from afar meant much more.

The Hmong FF is a new organization that seeks to provide the Hmong people with a national soccer team. The Hmong diaspora, which included over 63,000 Minnesotans as of the 2010 census, is a stateless community originating in east and southeast Asia. While Hmong people today live and enjoy soccer in countries like the United States, Laos, or Thailand, this distinct, historic community does not have a national team to call their own.

  

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