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5. Teenager scores game-winning goal in first game

It was a scoreless semi-final in Halifax when New Brunswick and Newfoundland faced off in the Under-16 Atlantic Championships. And then Mohammed Matar Haj Ale, scored the winning goal. The 16-year-old and his family spent three years in a camp for Syrian refugees before moving to Fredericton in January. He had been called in to play when another player couldn't make the trip to Halifax for the game on June 27. It was his first game for the team.

Mohammed Matar Haj Ale

Soccer player Mohammed Matar Haj Ale and his family spent three years in a camp for Syrian refugees before moving to Fredericton in January 2016. (CTV News)

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