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The beginnings of football in Colombia

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Colonel Lemly

For years, Colombians thought football first entered their country through the Caribbean in 1903. But several documents, often forgotten even after they were found in 1987, give the credit of introducing that sport to American colonel Henry Round Lemly in 1880.



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