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TEN WAYS SOCCER CAN HELP YOU GROW UP GLOBAL (excerpt from Growing Up Global – abridged version in previous post)

THE GAMES THAT UNITE US When my family was living in West Africa, we became accustomed to seeing almost anything that had been thoroughly exhausted as a source of food or fuel get kicked toward a goal. Bottle caps, tin cans that could no longer be reused as containers, rotted cashew shells, abundant unripe mangoes—all…

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