[OBITUARY: Harry Keough (1927-2012)] The first time I talked with Harry Keough about the 1950 World Cup defeat of England, three and a halfdecades had passed, yet the details still swirled in his mind. Sights and sounds and smells of the stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; the numbing boredom of a long boat trip from New York to Brazilthat took the team to the competition; the joking rivalry between the St. Louis and East Coast players; and, of that game itself, a humble pride in accomplishing what he’d believed as a player andpreached as a coach: “You always have to believe you have a chance to win, because you do.”

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