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WAY OF LIFE: Seth Burkett is quickly finding out about football in Sri Lanka

Before I can stop smiling from our opening day victory we are already on the road again, this time to Jaffna in the northernmost part of the country.
The predictions from my teammates are worrying. “Valvai are the best team in the tournament,” I’m told by almost all of them. “They have four national team players”…”They spent the maximum amount at the player auction”…”If you beat a Jaffna team in Jaffna then their fans attack you”.
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