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Every week during the season, the languagecaster team will explain a football headline that has
appeared in the English-speaking press and this week we feature the Russia-Ireland European
Championship game.
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that tonight is the 10th anniversary of the original Cold War
match between the USA and Mexico. It was the first matchday of the 2001 Hexagonal and the USA had
experienced a bruising semifinal round that saw them play in the steaming Guatemalan jungle, a
hellish Saprissa environment, and a bumpy pitch in Barbados (just 25 minutes away from being
eliminated!
