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July 2002 – 15. the Worldcup

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During the Worldcup football (or soccer, in some parts of the world) Haitians forget all their daily controversies, and unite behind one of the two favourites for the title. Although I have been in football-crazy countries before, Haiti is a whole different experience. Not having a national football team to speak of, come the Worldcup [...]
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the worldcup (2)

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3 July 2010 Just when the atmosphere around the Worldcup started to approach what it had been eight years ago (and probably four years ago, too), with more and more serious expressions of support in the streets, more and more cars decorated in green and yellow or blue and white, more and more people wearing [...]
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the worldcup

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15 June 2010 It was bound to come up: the Worldcup. We are talking about football, as in the game played with your foot, soccer thus. I have been in Haiti before, during a Worldcup, so I was prepared. A country normally divided, between black and mulatto, between very poor and very rich, even between [...]
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