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Joe Gaetjens - Hero For A Day...
Posted by MichaelC on 12 June 2010 - 1:44am.
The sad story of Joe Gaetjens, the man who scored the winning goal against England in 1950....

To summarise briefly, after a period of time playing football in Europe, Gaetjens moved back to his native Haiti, where he fell foul of 'Papa Doc' Duvalier and his Tonton Macoutes and disappeared into Fort Dimanche jail, never to be seen again...
Here's a link to the full story at espn.com:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/id/4937012/ce/us/real-sto...
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