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World Cup Nostalgia: Ultimately, it was televised

Hal Phillips — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:20:26 +0000

Like the Olympic Games, the World Cup comes round but once every four years. Unlike the modern Olympiad, the World Cup has only recently attracted the exhaustive attention of television programmers, a fact driven home to me by my friend and colleague, Dieter Schmidt, in his debut column at halphillips.net. There was indeed no international […]

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Soccer’s own Encinitas Man to contribute WC 2010 reports

Hal Phillips — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:02:05 +0000

The curious, inspirational story of Dieter “Dee” Schmidt first came to the soccer world’s attention some four ago when his frozen but otherwise well preserved body — clad in nothing but a vintage Paul Breitner Bayern Munich jersey, impossibly bell-bottomed jeans and a pair of antique adidas Sambas — was recovered, thanks to a […]

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