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A Spanish Team Endures on a Toehold in Africa

A.D. Ceuta, one of only two European soccer clubs based on the African continent, sits at a cultural crossroads where Spain, Morocco and migrants come together.

CEUTA, Spain — From the top of Alfonso Murube Stadium, you can see the peninsula of Ceuta stretching out into the Mediterranean Sea. Out on the water, ferries shuttle back and forth across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar to the coastline of southern Spain, just 30 short minutes away. Walk half an hour in the opposite direction and you get a very different view: two 20-foot fences topped with razor wire that mark the border with Morocco.