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15 football players disappear at Homeless WC in Denmark

August 08, 2007 00:00:00


LAGOS, August 7 (Xinhua): Fifteen footballers who took part in the Homeless World Cup in Denmark have left their teams and gone missing, local media in Nigeria reported Tuesday.
The police and the organisers said Monday that seven of the missing players were from Burundi, four from Liberia, three from Cameroon and one from Afghanistan.
The men had entry visas that expired on Monday. Danish police said they would be arrested and deported if found. The Liberian team managed to win third place in the tournament despite having lost four of its players.
The men may already have left Denmark as their visas allowed them to travel within the 15 European countries in the Schengen borderless travel area, Danish immigration authorities said.

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