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    Of football, friendship, fraternity

    Aug 23, 2020 3 minutes
    PETER AUF DER HEYDE sports@citypress.co.za
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    SENA GOULAO / EPA
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    Like 400 million other people, I’ll be watching tonight’s Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Bayern Munich in the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon.

    But my thoughts will be thousands of miles away from the capital city of Portugal. They’ll be in Johannesburg in 2015.

    In that year, Juventus and Barcelona made it through to the championship match and the LaLiga side won 3-1, thanks to goals by Ivan Rakitić, Luis

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