{
  "id": 9514103,
  "title": "'Death of the Soccer God' pays 'homage' to Haitian diaspora and 'those who go back & do their best'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/death-of-the-soccer-god-pays-homage-to-haitian-diaspora-and-those-who",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-24T06:29:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/death-of-the-soccer-god-pays-homage-to-haitian-diaspora-and-those-who-go-back-do-their-best"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Dimitry Elias Léger, journalist and author of \"Death of the Soccer God\". He begins with an extraordinary but largely forgotten moment in sporting history: the Haitian-born Joe Gaetjens scoring the goal that gave the US its famous victory over England at the 1950 World Cup. But Léger is less interested in reconstructing Gaetjens’s biography than in using the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}