By Natasha Cooper

 MELBOURNE - They call their soccer team Lil’ Brazil, they dream of one day making it to Rio to meet their football idols but for now its Melbourne.

The girls of Lil’ Brazil come from Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon and even further across the globe, Malaya. But they proudly wear the green and gold colours of the Brazilian team strip in their matches around Melbournes’s northern suburbs.

The team is the brainchild of Hala Abdelnour of the Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (SMRC) in Preston and Coordinator of a leadership group called the Ethnic Youth Council (EYC).