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Africa's football boycott
Fifty years ago, African nations staged a boycott of the 1966 World Cup.
They objected to how FIFA treated African and Asian football teams.
麻豆社 Africa's Piers Edwards travelled to Accra, Cairo and Paris and sent this report.
(Photo: 1966 World Cup quarter-finals in Liverpool, England. Mozambican-born Portugal striker Eusebio scores one of his two penalties against North Korea. Portugal won the match 5-3. Credit: Popperfoto/Getty Images.)
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