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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : SPOTLIGHT : TOGETHER FOR A KICK

By ELLIOTT ALMOND

The political situation in Nigeria is “like a misunderstanding between two brothers,” said Chief Sebastian Batatunde Williams, a FIFA official from Lagos. “Nigeria is the only (African) country in which football is the common ground for everything. Whenever there is football, we’re together.”

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