‘A disability is not inability’: How this blind soccer league is changing lives in the world’s newest country

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CNN  —  South Sudan is not known for its soccer presence. Jimmy Just Augustin, who captains the competition’s Kator Blind Football Club, had never even heard of blind soccer before he was introduced to it. Augustin went blind as a child in 2012. He experienced pain in both of his eyes, but was told by a village doctor that nothing was wrong. He eventually visited a doctor in Juba, but by that point, his retinas were damaged beyond repair. He was forced to give up soccer but discovered the blind