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Article: For Sarajevo soccer team, just playing is a real victory. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 13, 1994
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina _ Mahir Chaber, 17, is sitting on the bench.
So are most of the other teenagers on Vrbanjusa, Logavina Street's soccer team. They play indoors _ they've been under cover since Serbian shelling began in April 1992 _ and indoor soccer uses only five players instead of 11.
``Outdoors, it's more interesting. More guys get to play. There's more action. But in the war, indoors is better. It's safer,'' explains Chaber, with an air of chipper acceptance.
Actually, it is remarkable that boys are able to play the game that they call ``fudbala'' at all.
One member of Vrbanjusa was shot in the stomach by a sniper, another grazed by ...