We've been dying to get to Cuba the whole tournament ... They have a very strong team -- this is their Olympic gold team.
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I was at that World Cup, coaching the Netherlands, and I heard somebody yelling, 'Skip, Skip, Skip' at me in a thick accent. It was this big Russian kid named Igor who was in the Dodgers camp for a while. He didn't make it, but he could pound the ball pretty good.
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