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The Christmas Truce of 1914: When War Stopped for Football
War… and then Silence In December 1914, just months after World War I began, Europe was already drowning in blood. The Western Front in Belg
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The Fan Who Lifted a Legend: The Story of Roberto Cejas Before Immortality
Some football images live forever. Not because they were planned, but because they captured something real. One of those moments happened on
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The Mexican Fan Who Extinguished Paris’ Eternal Flame During the 1998 World Cup
During the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, an incident occurred that would go down not in official match records, but in football folklore. N
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