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Thanks for the comment. Of course, other hooks were possible as well here. Let's hope that soon many NFT articles grow towards GA (or even FA)! There was already enough to tell about this country team of a fairly tiny footballing nation, so I assume the same must be true for many other NFT articles.
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has won more games against its rival France, a former world champion, than it has lost?
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