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The beautiful — and corrupt — game

My good friend and MPR colleague, Hart Van Denburg, announced on Twitter over the weekend that he's giving up trying to explain the beautiful game to Americans.

https://twitter.com/hartupnorth/status/473139082445750273

This is the most exciting thing that happens at a soccer game. It happened Friday night and they're still talking about it.

Advantage: Europe. I guess.

In other news, the New York Times has exposed a syndicate that European police investigators says fixed hundreds of professional soccer matches around the world.

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