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shared by Christoph Zed on 28 Aug 09 - Cached

This is the San Polo municipal football ground on the outskirts of Brescia - a big industrial city in the north of Italy home to one of the biggest south Asian communities in the country.
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The attraction is cricket - the final rounds of a limited overs competition.
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"It's not a good place to live", he says. "Most Italians only speak their own language and so - unlike Indians and Pakistanis - they don't mix well with people from other cultures."
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the place could benefit from a "multicultural mix-up"
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The League is almost invariably described as xenophobic
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there have been complaints about cricket in the parks; and, yes, it has been banned, with local police ordered to halt games
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"I want to see more Italian kids take it up," he adds. "Cricket can help build links between the Italian and immigrant communities - and help us avoid some of the problems we've seen in the past."
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He is a politician - a pragmatist who simply can no longer afford to ignore the demands of his hometown's large south Asian community. And in this case pragmatism - it would seem - might just be the best way to start building a better life for everyone.
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