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LEFT WINGERS WHO MADE THEIR MARK

GILES METCALFE looks at some of the more famous Socialists who graced world football

Following Late Tackle’s feature on right-wing footballers in the last issue, we take a look at some notable footballers at the opposite end of the political spectrum.
Volker Ippig
 The long-haired Volker Ippig is perhaps the most legendary of all radical footballers. Now a dockworker, he was goalkeeper for leftwing hipster posterboys St Pauli.
When Ippig broke into the St Pauli first team in 1981, the city of Hamburg and in particular the Reeperbahn area near St Pauli’s ground, was a h...

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