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Atlanta United Homegrown player to speak at DeKalb alma mater

Dec 8, 2018: Atlanta United Josef Martinez leaps in the air and Miguel Almiron charges the field celebrating winning the MLS CUP 2-0 over the Portland Timbers.
Dec 8, 2018: Atlanta United Josef Martinez leaps in the air and Miguel Almiron charges the field celebrating winning the MLS CUP 2-0 over the Portland Timbers.
By Raisa Habersham
Dec 19, 2018

Students at one DeKalb school will get a kick out of Friday’s special guest.

Students at International Community School will hear Lagos Kunga, a member of Atlanta United’s Homegrown team. Homegrown players are those who are signed to professional contracts by a team after they have spent at least a year in that team’s youth development program.

He’ll speak at 10 a.m., according to a news release. The school is located at 2418 Wood Trail Lane in Decatur.

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Lagos Kunga (Courtesy of MLS)

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Kunga, who graduated from the school in 2017, will speak about his path to Atlanta United.

Students in ICS’s soccer program will also play with the 19-year-old forward.

Kunga lived in Tucker. His family moved to Georgia from Russia in 2006. They are originally from Angola. Kunga started on Atlanta United’s Homegrown team in early this year.

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Raisa Habersham is the Intown Atlanta hyperlocal reporter for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

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