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Story summary
- Eve Irvine hosts journalist Dimitry Elias Léger to discuss his book.
- Léger is author of the nonfiction work “Death of the Soccer God.”
- He opens by recounting Haitian-born Joe Gaetjens scoring the goal that beat England in 1950.
- Léger uses Gaetjens’s story to examine diaspora and fame.
- He links the story to questions of mortality and moral responsibility.