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Folarin Balogun lights up World Cup for US
The 24-year-old striker was born in Brooklyn, but raised in London
LOS ANGELES — If a pregnant Nigerian woman had been allowed to board a plane 25 years ago, the U.S. team's path through this summer's World Cup may have unfolded much differently. Instead, a gate agent turned her away, insisting it wasn't safe for her to fly from New York to London.
So Florence Balogun returned to Brooklyn, where she had been visiting relatives, and waited for her second son to be born. And when Folarin arrived a few weeks later, entering the world just hours before Independence Day dawned, he did so as an American citizen.
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