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| | World Cup Soccer - The World's Game - National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | 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. |
 | | The Russian footballer, contrarily, is sad, melancholy, and violent, given to unpredictable and self-contradictory outbursts, and his relations with the ball are reminiscent of those of the Slavic lover with his sweetheart in those verses and laments that end always in bursts of pistol-fire." |
 | | "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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