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| Football gives the people an alternative sense of pride dependent on skill rather than violence. It provides a sense of hope in a situation that to many would appear hopeless. It reinforces their idea of community in a reality that has only offered them a broken and fractured existence. |
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| Scarred shins are a testimony to these conditions, and boots with holes are as common as bare feet. In a downtown graveyard, street kids gamble away the money they earn through collecting scrap. But their inevitable arguments are broken by the daily ritual of late afternoon soccer. | |||||||||
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