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Boys playing football in front of a statue of Russian communist leader Lenin at a public park in Hanoi. In Vietnam the love of the beautiful game dies hard. Football is, by all measures, the most popular sport in this country of some 90 million. AFP PHOTO

PLEIKU, Vietnam: Deep in the Vietnamese highlands, an academy teaching youths to play football with no boots or goalkeeper offers a glimmer of hope for a national team plagued by scandal and poor performances.

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