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101 Great Goals - latest football videos and ... found this 2/10/2008 on www.timesonline.co.uk [flag]
Netan Sansara. Netan. Sansara. Players look at me and hear the name and ask, Are you Portuguese or Puerto Rican or something? Then I tell them. Indian? they say, shouldn t you be playing barefooted? There can even be ignorance close to home. Some of my family on my mum s side say, Are you working? and I say, Yes, I m a footballer and they just look at me. Isn t that just for weekends? People ... [link]

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“A two finger salute to the English football fan” & “Why are there no Asian football stars?”
Published 2/10/2008 by Ronaldo Assis de Moreira at 101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more
... Jonathan Northcroft (Sunday Times) asks “Why are there no Asian football stars?” “The low number of Asian participants at elite level in almost every discipline is one of the scandals of English sport, and football’s almost total lack of professional Asian players the biggest scandal within the scandal.” ...

QPR and Pakistan's Zesh Rehman Cited in Article "Why Are There No Asian Football Stars"
Published 2/10/2008 by Administrator at QPR REPORT
... The Pakistan international had a spell at Manchester United’s academy before making his professional debut for Huddersfield - Sunday Times