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    Venezuela emerge from obscurity

    By Brian Homewood

    Thursday, March 11, 2004

    LIMA, March 11 (Reuters) - Until around two years ago, Venezuelans could not buy replica soccer shirts of their national soccer team - even if they wanted to. The side had one of the worst records in international football and aroused so little public interest that many people did not even know what colour they played in. Nowadays, the distinctive burgundy shirts are ubiquitous to sports shops around the country and the team routinely play their home matches to sellout crowds. There is even t ...

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