What Soccer Means to South Africa
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The popularity of soccer in Africa is fueled in great part by the fact that so many of the game's big stars Cameroonian Samuel Eto'o, who plays for Inter Milan in Italy's Serie A League, and Ivorian Didier Drogba, who plays for Chelsea in England's Premier League, to name but two were born and raised on the continent.
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