Opinion: The World Cup should dedicate Haiti's games to a Port-au-Prince boy who embraced soccer 鈥� the game, not the greed 鈥� as sanctuary from the gangs that killed him last month.
On the latest episode of Americas Decoded, SA国际传谋鈥檚 Americas editor Tim Padgett says that modern soccer鈥檚 soul has collapsed, but Haiti鈥檚 appearance in the World Cup is a reminder that beneath the rubble of the sport there is a survivor 鈥� a game that still has human meaning.
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