The defendant even compares himself to the protagonist of Mr. Kiarostami's "The Traveler" ("Mossafer, " 1974), about a boy so desperate to attend a soccer match that he steals and cheats.

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All of the greater Shefi family admired you for your distinguished achievments: An excellent soccer player as a boy, a businessman from the age of 5, (yes 5) a distinguished officer of the I.

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It cuts between a small boy beating a bigger opponent in a soccer match, short versus tall players in a basketball game, a bear being scared off by a beaver and cartoon character Popeye punching Bluto into mid-air.

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He was sitting beside soccer legend Pele, who was chatting in front of television cameras with a young Emirate boy.

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Left unsaid: Can the 49-year-old soccer mom motivate a worldwide staff of 36, 000 designers and engineers in an old-boy industry where only "car guys"--like the colorful, cigar-chomping Bob Lutz--are considered worthy of leading vehicle development?

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