IHT Rendezvous: Of Sport, Politics and Passion
 

European sport has long been seen as providing not just a metaphor for the rivalries of nations, but also as an antidote to the passions that have scarred the continent for centuries. And in recent months, soccer has provided an analogy that seemed to track the region's financial malaise.

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