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World Service,4 mins

Africa's football boycott

Focus on Africa

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Fifty years ago, African nations staged a boycott of the 1966 World Cup. They objected to how FIFA treated African and Asian football teams. Âé¶¹Éç 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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