Persebayas Own Goal

THREE men sat close to each other in a room at Maharaja Hotel, South Jakarta. Brief sentences and deep sighs could be heard now and again, followed by silence. The three players of Persebaya, Surabayas soccer team, Ibnu Syuhadak, Kasiyanto and Stefano Cugurra, were dazed on Tuesday evening last week.

They had just heard an important decision from the boss of this club: Persebaya withdrew from the big-eight round of the Indonesian League competitio

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