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In Football We Trust: Purpose and Hope through Football

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary In Football We Trust, Fihi Kaufusi, a Highland High School student in Salt Lake City, confesses that while he doesn't like going to school all that much, football gives him a purpose and hope. He leads some of his teammates through Polynesian battle chants. To him the team is an extended family.

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