Nando Rafael is an Angolan-German football striker, as of 2006 plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach. He fled from the Angolan Civil War at the age of 8, and migrated to the Netherlands. In 2002 he signed for Hertha BSC Berlin in Germany, and he eventually received a German passport, enabling him to play for the Germany national under-21 football team. Wikipedia
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Nando Rafael was eight years old when he witnessed the shooting of his parents and a brother and sister in the civil war in Angola. His politically active uncle fled with him to the Netherlands, where they lived in several asylum-seeker hostels from 1994 www.flutlicht.org/ausstellung_e/nr.html
