There’s a wide patch of dirt between two apartment buildings in Newport News. At either end, children have drawn large rectangles on the red brick in white chalk: soccer goals. It's what passes for a pitch for the children here - and it's still more than many had back home.
Around 95 refugee families live in this apartment complex in Newport News. On Saturday morning, Old Dominion University men's soccer coach Alan Dawson and his squad set up cones and rolled out balls in the parking lot.
“The world’s game,” Dawson calls it, in a thick Irish brogue.