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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

World Cup brings together Southwest Side elementary schoolers: ‘We needed this’

Students at Nathanael Greene Elementary School face off with their teachers in a soccer game in the school’s gym Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

For most of his life, Rodolfo Santos has thought of himself as American and Mexican, but since the 2022 World Cup began, he’s tried something new.

“Hadaf,” the 10-year-old said, pronouncing a word in Arabic that means gooooooooooal.

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