00:00The players we will watch over the coming weeks have looked forward to this moment for their entire lives.
00:05Players like Senegal's Ismail Assar, who quit his apprenticeship as a tailor
00:09when he was a teenager in a small town on the Mauritanian border
00:12so he could chase his love of the beautiful game.
00:16Nothing about him stepping out onto this pitch was promised.
00:18Nothing about it was inevitable.
00:20Players like Panama's Jose Fajardo, who worked construction along the Panama Canal
00:25before he finally made it pro at the age of 24.
00:28When we celebrate the World Cup, we are celebrating a working class sport
00:32and the working people who play it.
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