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To: Elsewhere who wrote (16985)	11/23/2003 9:00:36 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 793707

World Cup soccer returns to Afghanistan, supplanting former execution ground mytelus.com KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - World Cup soccer returned to Afghanistan on Sunday in a match at the stadium once used by the Taliban regime for public executions. The team lost - a respectable 2-0 defeat to neighbouring Turkmenistan - but that was a side issue. Some 2,500 Afghan fans cheered for their team every time the ball made it over midfield, and there was no violence. "I am so very proud, for myself and for my nation," said Ali Ahmad, a 19-year-old midfielder on the national team. "Some day, God will help us reach the World Cup final." The last internationally sanctioned match played on Afghan soil was before the 1979 Soviet invasion plunged the country into nearly a quarter-century of war.