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Let’s get a-head of the game’s big issue

Chris Dunlavy
a fresh take on football

MARCO van Basten has spent his life paying penance for the gifts bestowed on him by the sporting gods. That exquisite volley against the Soviet Union? Two European Cups with AC Milan? Three Ballon d’Ors? They were moments; glorious and brief.
But the ankle injury that afflicted him from the age of 22 and the botched surgery that ended his career left physical scars, mental anguish and permanent disability.
Van Basten has spent the week talking candidly about his life after football. The days consigned to a downstairs bedroom, unable to play...

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