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Progress and stagnation. Another season of professional football kicks off

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Bassil
Sep 30, 2019
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Ten years ago marked a turning point in Palestinian football as the first fully fledged professional league was launched in the West Bank. It was a change in more ways than one. The Second Intifada had halted all domestic football activity and the national team's steady progress since 1998 had halted.

If there was one area were football flourished it was…

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