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Simon Kuper selects 11 footballers whose lives have been touched by the politics of their time to join his Political Football First XI.

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Political Football: Rene Higuita »

Rene Higuita became an example of how Colombia's drugs war invaded people's lives. Simon Kuper selects him to keep goal for our Political Football XI.

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Political Football: Silvio Berlusconi »

With this week's Italian elections promising a third term as prime minister for Silvio Berlusconi, Simon Kuper nominates him president of our Political Football XI.

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