Report: Death of the Soccer God' pays 'homage' to Haitian diaspora and 'those who go back & do their best

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Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Dimitry Elias Léger, journalist and author of "Death of the Soccer God". The report also notes that He starts with an extraordinary but largely forgotten moment in sporting history: the Haitian-born Joe Gaetjens scoring the goal that gave the US its famous victory over England at the 1950 World Cup. But Léger is less interested in reconstructing Gaetjens’s biography than in using the football star's journey as a " jumping point" to examining diaspora, fame, mortality and moral responsibility. Success offers neither immunity from history nor escape from mortality: as he puts it, “You could be super famous and end up on death row” or die wealthy in your own bed: “Either way, you’re going to die.

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