Vitali Vitaliev on World Cup minnows and an engineer who turned out for his national side. TWO QUESTIONS keep bothering me on the eve of the World Cup in South Africa: First, how do you compete in international football if your country is not quite a country? Second, is there still a place where amateurs - say, 'humble' lorry drivers or engineers, as opposed to grossly overpaid professional players - can be part of a national soccer team? The answer to the first is VIVA! Or, to be more exact, the VIVA Soccer Cup for the Countries the World Forgot.
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