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Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Aboutreika of the Al-AhIy Pharoahs is the player who stepped up to this task. It's a safe bet that Pharoah mania isn't exactly sweeping the States. It's also probably true that most readers don't know Mohamed Aboutreika from Muhammad Ali, but the two men share more than a name.
After his team won the African Champions League in 2006, the press lavished him with praise. But Aboutreika gently rebuked them, saying, "We need to stop this habit of praising [an individual] player. It isn't Aboutreika, but the whole team who got the Cup. Without the others' efforts, I can't ever make anything. Football is a game played by many players. It isn't tennis or squash.""A stream of dark and putrid sludge snakes through Gaza's streets," wrote journalist Mohammed Omer. "It is a noxious mix of human and animal waste. The stench is overwhelming. The occasional passer-by vomits. Over recent days, this has been a more common sight than the sale of food on the streets of Gaza, choked by a relentless Israeli siege."See the full content of this document
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Eyeless in Gaza
In a world where mainstream media dumb down news reportage with inane sports metaphors, sometimes it takes sports to remind us of the gravity of the actual news. While the press acts like extras on Gossip Girl as they assess the latest machinations of Bill, Barack...
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