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| August 28, 2002 | Wednesday | Jamadi-us-Saani 18,1423 |
Poor Niger seeks funds for relaunch
NIAMEY, Aug 27: Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries, is asking families to stump up a few pennies each to get its soccer team back on the road after two years in the wilderness.
A financial crisis at the West African country’s soccer federation has halted league and international fixtures for two years, but the government wants to enlist popular support to send a side to play Ethiopia in September.
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