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BOLD 9 AND SUPER 7

THE HIDDEN MEANING OF NUMBERS

Ellen White, Marco van Basten, Luca Vialli, Callum Wilson, Alan Shearer, Malcolm Macdonald, John Hartson, John Radford, Jamie Vardy, Luis Suarez, Erling Haaland, Gabriel Batistuta and Karim Benzema.
7This is more mysterious and harder to understand. Sevens are the mavericks, mystics and philosophers. They are not easily categorised, they do not fit the mould. They play football because they love it and it loves them.
They are dribblers, body swervers and nut-megging entertainers. Systems cannot constrain them. Coaching manuals mean nothing. AI data ba...

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