The Last Cup: Part 3
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Soccer in Argentina - The P-Bitreiro
In Argentina, most kids learn to play this rougher, more individualistic style of soccer on neighborhood dirt fields known as bloodriddles. There are usually no referees. The players run over uneven terrain through clouds of dust. Guillaume Balaget wrote Messi's Authorized Biography. He says in Argentina, up until recently, the P-bitreiro was THE school of soccer and it doubled as the school of life.
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