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Saga of Haitian 1950 World Cup hero

England faces the United States on day two of the Earth Cup in South Africa. In their only previous Planet Cup match back in 1950 the US underdogs beat the English team one-. It is considered a single of the biggest sporting upsets of all-time. Joe Gaetjens, a Haitian-American, scored the decisive US aim, but when he returned to his native Haiti, he disappeared right after becoming discredited by the federal government. And 60 a long time later on, it is nonetheless not known what took place to him. Al Jazeera’s Todd Baer reviews. [June, 12, 2010]