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Gazza Goes to China

Former football great Paul Gascoigne is starting over again, this time at the bottom of China's pro leagues. TIME goes on and off the pitch with the new star of the Lanzhou Flying Horses

On the way to visit Guangdong's hot springs. Out on the streets of China, the dislocation can be overwhelming: "I thought: I have to get out of here or I'll die," he remembers feeling on one of his first days of training

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