The recently-formed Q-League is a far cry from the camps where some of its players learnt to play using scrunched up plastic bags instead of balls

Rafique Mohammed lists the fortnightly rations doled out by United Nations personnel. “One kilogram of rice, a bit of oil.” He thinks for a second. “Dahl, some vegetables. There were a lot of people and little food. It was not ever, ever enough.”

It was all Mohammed ate for the first 13 years of his life, having been born inside Kutupalong, the world’s largest and most densely populated refugee camp and home of almost one million stateless Rohingya people who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

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