<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561214" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Liberia Plays Soccer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Beckham kicks the ball on a <br>soccer pitch in England, it <br>breaks through the opponent’s </div><div style="margin:10px 0">defense and slams into the goal post. <br>It then continues over the heads of the <br>cheering spectators, over miles of oceans </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and seas, and countries, and lands at the <br>feet of soccer-crazed Liberian men, who <br>immediately kick that same ball, again and </div><div style="margin:10px 0">again, into that very goal post, in their living <br>rooms, in posh sport lounges, in hot, smelly <br>video clubs, around the ataye* tables, on the</div><div style="margin:10px 0">buses, on the sidewalks. They keep kicking<br>that ball until somewhere in Europe, Drogba <br>kicks a different ball, into another goal post. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, Drogba’s ball comes to Liberia and the kicking begins anew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>*ataye – a hot drink, popular with Liberian males. The ataye tables have grown into informal political and social forums.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlina+Daitouah+Smith">Charlina Daitouah Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561214" data-title="Liberia Plays Soccer de Charlina Daitouah Smith" data-description="When Beckham kicks the ball on a soccer pitch in England, it breaks through the opponent’s defense and slams into the goal post. It then continues over the heads of the cheering spectators, over miles of oceans and seas, and countries, a..."></div> </div> </div>

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