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World Service,7 mins

The story behind football’s magic foam

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Heine Allemagne is the inventor of the magic vanishing spray that the referees were using to mark out white lines on the pitch for free kicks in the World Cup. The story of how he came up with the idea is as intriguing as any football match.

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