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After Escobar — with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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Game of Our Lives

Whether you call it football or soccer, you can’t understand it without understanding the modern world — and you can’t understand the modern world wit 
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In the 1980s and 90s, Colombian football was some of the best it had ever been. The price: near-total control by the country’s drug lords. This week, Goldblatt talks with fan and novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez about what it was like growing up in Colombia during that time, how following the sport helps him see his country’s changes, and whether there’s any such thing as a pure game.

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Whether you call it football or soccer, you can’t understand it without understanding the modern wor 
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