ABOVE: Salvadoran star player Mauricio Rodriguez goes for goal in the second play-o ; he would grab the winner in the third match LEFT: The war makes the US front pages – as does a small mission to land humans on the moon
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Amelia Bolaños was like almost every other of El Salvador’s three million citizens: the 18-year-old was desperate for her country to beat Honduras and qualify for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.