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“He told me the only way to silence them was to beat them. That is the only thing that made me stay.”

Source: Press conference after racist abuse at Zaragoza, 1 March 2006 (AFP report)

Context Days after monkey chants at Zaragoza nearly made him walk off the pitch, he told reporters that Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard had persuaded him to stay on.

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Samuel Eto'oCameroon · b. 1981
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