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    Adopted son of Sao Paulo

    By Andrew Downie

    Wednesday, February 1, 2006

    Sao Paulo, Brazil - Sometimes, usually when he is lazing around the house at the end of the day, Carlos Gamarra has flashbacks. The images are from France 1998 and they hurt almost as much today as they did that day in Lens when Laurent Blanc's header gave the host nation the golden goal they needed to squeeze past Gamarra's Paraguay. No matter how hard he tries, he can't stop them. 'When I am at home, lying down, with time to think, those images flash into my mind,' Gamarra said recently, st ...

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