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Desmond Armstrong: America's World Cup Pioneer

Desmond Armstrong was the first US-born black player to represent the United States men's national football team at a World Cup. He was part of the squad that did the unthinkable: qualifying for Italia 90 at a time when the US had no professional league and football wasn't taken seriously. This documentary explores how he got there, the racial tensions of that era and his work as a youth academy coach in Antioch, Nashville, making the sport accessible to immigrant communities against a backdrop of heightened immigration enforcement.