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19-Year-Old Afghan Soccer Player Dies in Fall From U.S. Plane at Kabul Airport

‘DEEPEST CONDOLENCES’

“He was a brilliant young player, a very good human,” his coach Mobin Muhammad told The Daily Beast through tears.

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Blake Montgomery

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Cheyenne Ubiera

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Breaking News Intern

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