Weeks Before He Died, Fidel Built a Soccer Field For Poor Kids
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People walk on a street in Jaimanitas where Cuba's former President Fidel Castro lived in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 2, 2016. | Photo: Reuters
Fidel was a sports fan and believed in the importance of promoting free access to it across Cuba.
Fidel Castro, the late leader of the Cuban Revolution, built a soccer field for poor kids of the neighborhood he lived in just two weeks before his death.
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Fidel, who led Cuba's 1959 revolution and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Nov. 25 at age 90.
He lived on the western edge of Havana in a house adjacent to a typical Cuban neighborhood called Jaimanitas.
One of Fidel's final acts was to order a soccer field built for the youth in Jaimanitas, wh...