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goalkeeper for their tour of Europe. The purpose of this tour was to raise money for the refugees who had fled Spain, and also as a form of propaganda to let the world know that there was a Basque government resisting the fascist rebels. The team traveled through France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the
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