AT almost exactly the same hour that Marc-Vivien Foe was laid to rest in his Cameroon homeland, Gianfranco Zola explained why he is going home.
Sport as an abbreviated form of the life cycle was seldom so graphically illustrated. Foe collapsed and died “of natural causes” on a football field at the age of 28. Zola, returning to the island of Sardinia at 37, was able to choose the time and place to wind down a wonderful career.
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