00:00The players we will watch over the coming weeks have looked forward to this moment for their
00:03entire lives. Players 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 so he could chase his love
00:14of the beautiful game. Nothing about him stepping out onto this pitch was promised.
00:19Nothing about it was inevitable. Players like Panama's Jose Fajardo, who worked construction
00:24along the Panama Canal before he finally made it pro at the age of 24. When we celebrate the
00:29World Cup, we are celebrating a working class sport and the working people who play it.
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