FOR 50 years and more, migrant Latin American footballers have been arriving to sound and fury in Barcelona or Madrid.
Some 30,000 Catalans crowded into the Nou Camp stadium on Monday to hail El Barca's latest extravagant Brazilian import, Ronaldinho. Around the same hour in Madrid, maybe half a dozen people were party to the sad conclusion that Real Madrid would not, after all, go through with the signing of the young Argentine center-back, Gabriel Milito.
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