Amputee Soccer Team by Adam Nadel

Amputee Soccer Team

Sports, first prize singles

00-08-2003

Captain of the national amputee soccer team, M'byo Conteh, practices with fellow teammates during a training camp prior to a tour of the United Kingdom in August. The club was founded in 2001 by men who had lost their limbs in Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war. Players come from the country's lowest socio-economic level and have little opportunity for employment. Part of the aim of the tour was to draw attention to the plight of amputees in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leoneans failed to defeat the UK's national amputee team.

Commissioned by: The Christian Science Monitor

Photo Credit: Adam Nadel

Adam Nadel (born 1967) is an American photographer based in New York City.

Exhibitions of Nadel's work include If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by Adam Nadel, which comprises 30 portraits of people involved in the Bosnian War, Rwandan Genocide and war in Darfur; and Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears, a multi-media exhibition illustrating malaria's impact

Nadel was a New York City staff photographer for the Associated Press in the late 1990s, and has worked for Newsweek, Stern, The Sunday Telegraph, Time, The Times and The New York Times. The New York Times nominated his 2005 work in Iraq for a Pulizer Prize.