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| | World Cup Soccer - The World's Game - National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | Brazil was the big favorite going into the round-robin—indeed, the favorite of the whole 1982 World Cup— and the game between these legendary rivals was touted as the "Latin American Final," with the winner favored to go all the way. |
 | | Barcelona became the club of Catalanism, of anti-Francoism, of the intellectuals, the tribal elite, the rich; Espanyol the club of nationalism, the old hierarchies, the working class, migrants, the poor. |
 | | "Football would be a happy thing," someone has said, "if it weren't for the games.") He absorbs the ceremony into himself, experiencing it as an inner conflict, feeling the movements of the teams, the ever-changing patterns, as one feels health and disease, becoming one with the game, the pitch, the players. |
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