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“Please take more attention to the young ones, to the kids all over the world. We need them too much.”
Source: Farewell speech at Giants Stadium, New Jersey, 1 October 1977
Context Addressing the rain-soaked crowd at his farewell match in New Jersey, he appealed to spectators to care for children around the world.
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