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COMMERCE CITY — He grew up playing soccer barefoot in the streets of Kampala, the dusty capital of poverty-stricken Uganda in East Africa. As Micheal Azira recalls memories of bloody toenails lost, a sweet smile forms with the telling because it was there his passion caught fire.
Azira learned to be resourceful at a very young age. He knew he couldn’t ask his mother for soccer shoes, so he saved the money she would give him for breakfast at school. He hid the money in a tin container and didn’t touch it until he had enough to buy a pair of Pumas when he was 13 or 14.