For Love of the Game
Radio Atlantic
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Soccer Is a Sanctuary
"For so many of us, soccer is a sort of sanctuary. There were limits to how much of a sanctuary it could be," he says. "When I dribbled past a bunch of defenders and crossed it into the box, then one of the folks in the stands on Dutch town side, they said, take that nigger out." He adds: "It created this big hoopla and UEFA, the European Soccer Federation, said that they were going to be more stringent and punishing"
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