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AGAINST THE ODDS

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
13 July 2017

COLIN ALLAN looks at countries where football is not the number one sport…

COLIN ALLAN

Hoop dreams: Lithuania, seen here playing against Australia in Rio, is a basketball hotbed

Big moment: Harry Kane scores on his debut against Lithuania

MAYBE one day I’ll tell my grandchildren that I saw Harry Kane’s first England goal. It came on his debut against Lithuania on Friday, March 27, 2015 during a Euro qualifying game.
England were already three up when Kane entered the fray and it took him just 80 seconds to score. A cross from Raheem Sterling found the striker unmark...

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