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Spot the impostor in this list of the game’s greatest players: Diego Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer, Pele and Alexander Hleb. An easy call for most people, but not for the coach of Belarus. Bernd Stange will be without his captain in Minsk tomorrow evening, denied access to the former Arsenal midfielder after Barcelona put their foot down over a nagging ankle injury and insisted he remains in Spain. He is Belarus’s best player, their finest football export since the split from the former Soviet Union in 1991, but a country ranked 59th in the world will be without him in the 41,000 capacity Dinamo Stadium. ‘When someone like Hleb is injured, as he is at the moment, then the team are missing their Maradona, their Beckenbauer, their Pele,’ said the German coach. ‘It makes it even harder to spring a surprise.’ A big miss: Losing... [read full story]
