His colleague - the legendary American war correspondent Ernie Pyle who entered Paris with General Leclerc's column, wrote this.

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"It will be a fantastic tournament -- but not all operational arrangements will be 100%" secretary general Jerome Valcke wrote in his monthly column on the FIFA website, on the same day of the inauguration of the third of the tournament's six host stadiums at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador.

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