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Football Changing Lives...

CHANDAN KUMAR MANDAL

What else can the game of football do except entertaining mass? If you think football is a mere sport played across the world for fun, you might be wrong. This glorious game has turned out to be 'life-changer' for girls in Western Nepal...My report from Bardiya, Nepal.

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