The biggest drawing card in French sports is a Moroccan soccer player named Larbi Ben Barek. He belongs to the soccer union and thus gets $20 a week and a $16 bonus for each game the team wins. His father was a shipyard worker in Casablanca, and he learned to play soccer bare foot on a Moroccan desert. A Mohammedan, he frequently bows his head to ward Mecca after scoring a goal.
Last week Allah was good to him. Sixty thousand Parisians, the biggest sports crowd since the war, squeezed into Colombes Stadium to see...
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