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Shanghai ? Argentina

On Thursday I published a short dispatch at the Atlantic in which I described the deep affinity that Shanghai’s sports fans have for the Argentine national team. So it makes a certain kind of cosmic sense that - when I arrived at Shanghai Stadium... ...full story at Shanghai Scrap

from Shanghai Scrap on Sun, Aug 10 2008

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