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Watch LIVE from St Mary’s as #SaintsFCU23s take on #DCFC in #PL2: http://sfcne.ws/U23DCFCLiveh

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1: We’re under way here at St Mary’s, as #SaintsFCU23s take on #DCFC.

Come on, Saints! :innocent: [0-0]

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#SaintsFCU23s and their #DCFC counterparts observed a minute’s silence ahead of kick-off to mark the sad passing of… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/855483171097518080

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| | Southampton ‘make contact’ with former Puel pupil, €40m ‘release clause’ an obstacleSPORTWITNESS |
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16; @Ryan_Seager goes close to opening the scoring for #SaintsFCU23s, after being picked out by Armani Little.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/855486449977888768

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21: #SaintsFCU23s@sammcqueen123 hits a free-kick narrowly over the bar. #saintsfc [0-0]

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:three::zero: minutes gone…

#SaintsFCU23s have looked the more likely to make the breakthrough but it’s goalless.

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HALF TIME: #SaintsFCU23s 0-0 #DCFC U23s

A solid first-half from the hosts, but it remains all square at the interv… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/855493879252103173

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46: #SaintsFCU23s are back under way against #DCFC U23s!

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Summary of non-mainstream articles: 21/04/2017 19:17:09

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60: @simsjosh12 goes close to opening the scoring for #SaintsFCU23s but #DCFC’s Kyron Stabana denies him superbly.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/855502353440669698

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GOAL: #SaintsFCU23s 0-1 #DCFC U23s (Alex Babos 65)

The visitors lead as Alex Babos finishes from close range.

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FULL TIME: #SaintsFCU23s 0-1 #DCFC U23s

Alex Babos’ strike proves the difference here at St Mary’s in #PL2.

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We spoke to Technical Director Martin Hunter after #SaintsFCU23s’ disappointing 1-0 defeat to #DCFC:

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Southampton is proud to be joining football clubs across the country this weekend to celebrate the contribution refugees have made to football, as part of a new Amnesty International initiative.

Football Welcomes is a weekend of action that marks the 80th anniversary of the arrival in the UK of some of the first refugees to play professional football here. They were child refugees from the Spanish Civil War, who were evacuated to the UK after the bombing of Guernica on 26th April 1937.

Supported by a range of Premier League clubs, the Football League and the FA Women’s Super League, Football Welcomes also aims to highlight the important role clubs can play in promoting community cohesion.

Three Spanish Civil War refugee footballers played for Saints – Sabin Barinaga (1938-39), Raimundo Perez Lezama (1939-40) and Jose Gallego (1948-50), and, as well as highlighting the stories of some of those on our website, the club will also be providing free tickets to next weekend’s home game against Hull City to a number of refugees living locally.

Football Welcomes is part of Amnesty International’s ‘I Welcome’ campaign for a better international response to the global refugee crisis. The campaign encourages local communities to work together to create a more welcoming environment for people fleeing conflict and persecution.

Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK, said: “Refugees have made an important contribution to this much-loved game and their communities throughout the years.

“We are delighted that so many football clubs, who lie at the heart of these communities, are embracing this. They have a key role to play in helping to promote respect, understanding and integration.”

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Feature: The refugees who played for Saints

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On 24th July 2007, 84-year-old Raimundo Perez Lezama died in Bilbao a long way from Southampton and yet with his death there terminated a footballing connection between the two cities going back to a time before the Second World War.

Fourteen-year-old Raimundo Perez Lezama and Sabino Barinaga Alberdi were among 4,000 refugee Basque children who sailed from Santurce in Northern Spain on the SS Habana in May 1937 to escape the civil war.

The steamship was old, but it managed to evade the blockade of Bilbao – instigated by General Franco’s Nationalists in order to starve the automatous Basque region into submission – to reach Southampton 48 hours later.

The two young Spaniards duly attended local schools while living at Nazareth House in Hill Lane. Having one day walked into the nearby Dell to watch the professionals train, the then Saints manager, Tom Parker, threw them a ball. He soon noted both possessed no little footballing ability and invited them to join the clubs newly introduced ‘B’ side, under the managership of Toby Keleher.

Perez, an agile and lithe goalkeeper did well during his first season, playing in 18 league and cup games, while the slim and tall Barinaga in the same number of games, but playing upfront and double-footed, excelled, notching up an incredible 62 goals, an average in excess of a hat-trick per game. What was even more impressive was the fact he had never kicked a football before coming to England.

With the outbreak of war in September 1939 and the suspension of regular competitions, the club, tightening its belt, fielded just two teams, one participating in War competitions, while the reserves or A team, including Barinaga and Perez, competed in the Hampshire League. They progressed well against adult competition, particularly Barinaga, who posted 22 goals in just 14 appearances, including four hat-tricks, before his return to Spain in March 1940.

Perez, though, would remain to see out the season, which ran into June. A run of 11 Hampshire League and Cup games culminated in him winning a Hampshire Senior Cup medal after a 2-1 victory over Salisbury Corinthians, but now, as the Football League also had fixtures that extended into June, Perez was given his first-team debut at Arsenal.

Five days later, he retained his position and, strangely, five of the Arsenal side became teammates, as they guested for Saints in a 2-1 victory at Fulham.

His final appearance was to come at The Dell, with the visitors, Charlton, winning 3-1. Although the club attempted to retain him, the authorities refused permission and so, soon after, he too returned to Spain.

Now back in his homeland, Perez signed for Arenas Club de Getxo before joining Basque giants Athletico Bilbao in 1941 and was a member of their Spanish Championship sides of 1942-43 and 1955-56.

In 1947, he was awarded the Zamora Trophy for the best goalkeeper in La Liga, having conceded 29 goals in 23 games and soon after gained his only Spanish International cap, on 26th January 1947, against Portugal (1-4).

In this game it was later recalled by English referee Jim Wiltshire that he had occasion to warn the Spanish goalkeeper for swinging on the crossbar and, after attempting to explain to him in both French and German, got the reply “no savvy”. In exasperation, Wiltshire exploded “I don’t want you swinging on that bar, see?” Perez replied “Well, why didn’t you say so, I speak English. I played for Southampton for two seasons!"

His career at Bilbao would last until 1957 before dropping into the lower leagues. Barinaga, though, while offered a contract with Athletic Bilbao, opted to join Real Madrid and made his La Liga debut just a month after leaving Southampton against Bilbao (1-3).

After spending two seasons on loan at Real Valladolid (38 goals in 48 games), he returned to Madrid to net the first ever goal at the newly built Bernabeu Stadium, in an inaugural fixture against Portuguese side Belenenses.

After a successful career at Madrid he left in 1950 to join Real Sociedad and then Betis before retiring in October 1953. He started his coaching/managerial career at Betis in 1954 and subsequently took charge of 11 different clubs and had a stint as coach of the Morocco national side before finally retiring from football in 1978.

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Watch back the action from #SaintsFCU23s#PL2 clash against #DCFC: http://sfcne.ws/HighlightsDCh

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