Croatia's Liverpool Player Tells His Refugee Story

Dejan Lovren, a defender at Liverpool football club, launches a biographical film about his refugee experience on Wednesday in an attempt to trigger sympathy and understanding for Syrian refugees who are trying to reach Europe.

'Lovren: My Life as a Refugee' tells how the player's family left the village of Kraljeva Sutjeska, 35 kilometres from the town of Zenica in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the beginning of the war in 1992, when he was three years old.

They ended up in Munich in Germany, where they lived as refugees.

The film will be screened on Liverpool FC's TV channel on Wednesday evening, but a trailer of the film was published on the club's Facebook page on Monday.

In the trailer, Lovren talks about growing up in Kraljeva Sutjeska, where "they [local residents] had everything" before the war started.

He also speaks about his journey as a refugee from his village to Munich.

"I remember the sirens and how much I was afraid that the bombs would fall on us. I remember that my mother took me to the basement where it sat for a long time until the siren wouldn't signal the end of the alarm. Then I remember that my mother and I with my aunt and uncle sat in the car and went to Germany," he says in the film.

"We went with practically nothing, with the clothes we were wearing, without suitcases. We didn't take anything. I was a child and I didn't know much, but I knew we were going to a new place where we will be safer," he adds.

Lovren emphasises that this is the plight of refugees worldwide.

"If my family stayed in Bosnia, I would might end up killed, or my parents. Because of this, I find it hard to watch the refugees from Syria. I will always be grateful to Germany who received me and my family, while...

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