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19 year old Sudanese refugee Barnaba Madol arrived in this country five years ago.

He had a 4th grade education and spoke no English.

Last fall on this program we caught up with him as he tried to make his way in a nearly all-white high school in New Hampshire.

TAPE: I can't speak English or anything. I use my weapon which is soccer. And soccer, soccer does the talking for you.

Barnaba spent the past year at an elite prep school in New Hampshire trying to get into college on a soccer scholarship.

But New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports this past school year Barnaba's come to realize-maybe- soccer isn't enough.