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Barefoot Ivorian boys play an afternoon practice game at the Olympic Sport Abobo club in the Abobo neighborhood of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire February 18, 2006. Spawned from the success of the ASEC academy, some 300 rival football academies have arisen in Abidjan, mostly in poorer neighborhoods, and looking to reproduce the same results on the cheap, with little or no emphasis placed on education.
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