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Imagine that you are a 15-year-old kid from Honduras now living in Harlem,
想象一下你是一個15歲的孩子，來自洪都拉斯，現在生活在紐約哈萊姆區，
or you're a 13-year-old girl born in DC to two Nigerian immigrants.
或者你是一個13歲的小女孩，生于華盛頓特區，父母是尼日利亞移民。
You love the game. You're on the field with your folks.
你喜歡這個足球比賽。你和你的伙伴們在場上。
You've just been practicing dribbling through cones for, like, 15 minutes,
你已經練習了帶球過路障，練了15分鐘了，
and then, all of a sudden, a marching band comes down the field.
然后突然間，一個行進樂隊走向了球場。
I want to associate the joy of the game with the exuberance of culture,
我想把比賽的樂趣與文化的豐富性相結合，
to locate the site of joy in the game at the same physical coordinate as being politically informed by art,
把比賽的樂趣放置在和通過藝術來介紹政治知識同樣的坐標位置上，
a grass-laden theater for liberation.
一個綠草如茵、解放自由的劇院。
We spend a week looking at how the midfielder would explain Black Lives Matter,
我們用了一周來看中場球員如何解釋了Black Lives Matter（黑人抗議歧視的活動），
or how the goalkeeper would explain gun control,
或者守門員的位置可以怎么解釋槍支管制，
or how a defender's style is the perfect metaphor for the limits of American exceptionalism.
或者一個防守球員的風格怎么完美的比喻了美國排外主義的局限。
As we study positions on the field, we also name and imagine our own freedoms.
當我們研究球場上的位置，我們也會命名和想象我們自己的自由。
I don't know, man, soccer is, like, the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together.
怎么說呢，足球大概是這個星球上唯一一個我們都愿意一起做的事。
You know? It's like the official sport of this spinning ball.
是吧？它像是一個關于這旋轉的球的官方體育活動。
I want to be able to connect the joy of the game to the ever-moving footballer,
我希望可以把球賽的喜悅聯系到永遠在移動的球員，
to connect that moving footballer to immigrants who also moved in sight of a better position.
把那在移動的球員聯系到同樣在向更美好的方向移動的移民群體。
Among these kids, I want to connect their families' histories to the bliss of a goal-scorer's run,
對這些孩子，我想把他們的家庭歷史聯系到得分球員跑動時的幸福，
family like that feeling after the ball beats the goalie, the closest thing going to freedom. Thank you.
那看到足球沖向守門員的感覺是最接近自由的時刻。謝謝。
