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Football: 1997 world youth soccer championships

Monday 13 November 1995 00:02 GMT
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Joao Havelange, president of Fifa, the world governing body, said yesterday he would not let politics affect his promise to award the 1997 world youth soccer championships to Nigeria. The execution in Nigeria of nine dissidents on Friday provoked an international outcry.

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