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Sarkodie brothers are soccer royalty

By Patrick Carney
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, September 18, 2009

When the Indiana Hoosiers and Akron Zips meet on Friday, it will be a battle of royal supremacy for control of a coveted kingdom -- the soccer field. Brothers Ofori and Kofi Sarkodie will face off at Lee R. Jackson Field in their final head-to-head college soccer match. Their grandmother is a traditional female leader, or queen mother, in Kumasi, Ghana, where the family is from. Kofi will lead the No. 1 Akron Zips against his older brother's No. 8 Indiana Hoosiers. Akron and Indiana played ...

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