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Duarte’s different Wembley mission

Gracing the hallowed turf at Wembley is supposed to be every budding young footballer’s dream – but that’s not the case for Duarte Martins.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 May 2026

By Jon Couch
Gracing the hallowed turf at Wembley is supposed to be every budding young footballer’s dream – but that’s not the case for Duarte Martins.

Not that the talented striker didn’t have lofty ambitions of playing at the highest level – it’s just that he’d never really heard of the place!
“I lived in Portugal for the first 20 years of my life, so only really knew of it as the place where England played,” the AFC Stoneham frontman told The NLP.
“These days, I don’t live too far from Wembley but I’d never been until we were handed our stadium tour yesterday. I’ve never really had the ...

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