六级练习2016.06.19 football, anything, interest, schools, popular

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In the 1970s, the famous Brazilian football player Pele (1)_________________of Brazil and became a professional player for a team in New York. Football, or soccer, wasn’t very popular in the United States at that time.
Few North Americans knew anything about this fast-moving sport. There was (2)_________________and there was little interest in football in high schools and colleges.
When Pele and other international stars began playing in various US cities, (3)___________________was and began to go to the matches. It is now common for important games to have fifty to sixty thousand fans.

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oralex

retired from the national team
no money to pay professional players
people saw have interest again