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Street Child World Cup gives voice to young people around globe

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There was more than one World Cup in Moscow this summer – one event brings together people from all over the planet to change negative perceptions of street children

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World In Motion: The inside story of Italia 90 by Simon Hart

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De Coubertin Books, £16.99
Reviewed by Tim Springett
From WSC 377, July/August 2018
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Idols And Underdogs: An anthology of Latin American football fiction

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edited by Shawn Stein and Nicolás Campisi
Freight Books, £9.99
Reviewed by Jethro Soutar
From WSC 362, April 2017
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Professor Xabier

wsc299 Nick Dorrington ponders whether the return of the great Basque manager Xabier Azkargorta will inspire a new generation of Bolivian players

The 2011 Copa América seemed to illustrate the closing gap in quality between the traditionally stronger and weaker nations in South America, but there was one team to whom that didn’t apply. Bolivia were eliminated at the group stage with just a solitary point to their name and now, four matches in, lie dead last in the qualifying group for the 2014 World Cup.

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No head for heights

Greg Norman explains why both political and sporting reforms are needed in South America's poorest country

Despite playing at La Paz’s atmospheric Estadio Hernando Siles, the world’s highest international venue, the national team is, at 67, the lowest ranked South American side. Meanwhile, a league whose second most successful team in history is called The Strongest is, unsurprisingly, statistically the continent’s weakest in recent years. The last 16 of this year’s Copa Libertadores featured teams from eight different countries, yet Bolivian teams Bolívar and Blooming finished bottom of their groups with five points between them.

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