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SETH’S SRI LANKA SORTIE

AUTHOR AND FOOTBALLER SETH BURKETT GIVES US THE LOW-DOWN ON PLAYING IN THE SOUTH ASIAN ISLAND NATION...

WHEN you think ‘professional footballer’, you think big money, fast cars, tattoo sleeves and designer labels. You don’t think ‘has to pick up cow poo before kick-off’. Yet that was my reality as I signed a deal to play professional football in Sri Lanka, an experience detailed in my new book Titans of the Teardrop Isle.
Sri Lanka isn’t known for its football. It’s a cricket nation, producing legends such as Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara who would go on to dazzle the world. ...

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