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La Historia: Miguel Camargo

Miguel Camargo's path to professional sports didn't always point toward soccer.

"I used to be a baseball player," recalls the Panamanian attacker. Throughout the majority of his youth, soccer was an afterthought.

"I decided to play soccer at age 18," he says. "I wasn't in a league or a club or anything, then all of a sudden I didn't like baseball as much. I saw that soccer was better, and I chose soccer."

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As it turns out, he chose wisely, and his footballing talents led him to the pro ranks in unlikely fashion.