Africa Is a Country

The Beautiful Game

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The Beautiful Game

By
Sean Jacobs

Correction: You don’t have to be a football fanatic, be a supporter of the English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur or–for some of this blog’s readers–care whether the club has African players on its books–they have*–but you will enjoy this piece of animation of English player Gareth Bale’s goals earlier in the club’s Champions League campaign against Inter Milan, the defending champions. Tottenham are through to the quarterfinals after beating another Italian club AC Milan this week.

The animation is by Richard Swarbrick.

* Tottenham has the African players Steven Pienaar, Sebastian Bassong and Benoit Assou-Ekotto under contract.

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