The family of Awer Mabil has known both heartbreak and exquisite elation, and the events of early Tuesday morning (Australian time) emphatically fall into the latter category. With the score of ...

With the civil war in his home nation showing no signs of ending, the Mabil family moved to Australia in 2006 when Awer was 10 in search of a new life. Football became Mabil's saviour - as ...

Then, in 2012, Mabil’s older half-brother Awer Bul also made his way to Adelaide as a refugee, reuniting the family. Soon after, Bul asked Mabil if he wanted to go back to Kenya to see the ...

Watch Mabil’s embarrassing miss in the video player above Awer Mabil reacts after fluffing an easy chance for Adelaide United. What happened next? Watch in the video above. The UK press weren ...

The footballer and his family came to Australia in 2006 after growing up in a mud hut in a refugee camp after his mother fled civil war in Sudan. Awer Mabil with his coach Graham Arnold.

Awer Mabil has been named Young Australian of the Year.Credit: Getty Born in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where he lived until he and his family settled in Adelaide when he was 10 ...

SYDNEY, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Socceroos winger Awer Mabil has been named 2023 Young Australian Of The Year for his charitable work in the East African refugee camps where he was born. The 27-year-old ...

SYDNEY : Awer Mabil said ... room we had as a family back in the refugee camp. For Australia to take us in and re-settle us, it gave me and my family a chance of life." Mabil hoped his ...

Whether it’s on or off the field, Young Australian of the Year and Socceroo Awer Mabil says it ... country has given me and my family so much,” said Mabil, who was born in Kenya to South ...