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Football Age, “Real” Age, and the Meanings of Age in Africa

A gnawing and suspicious paradox lies at the heart of African national team experiences in world competition: African teams tend to do much better at the youth level than they do at the senior level. Take the fact, for example, that African teams have won 5 of the 12 FIFA U17 World Cups (with the 2009 version scheduled to be hosted by Nigeria in October and November), but not a single African team has ever made it as far as the semi-finals of a full World Cup.

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Pitch Invasion @ Aug 11, 2009 1:23 PM EDT | Blog Profile

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