Japan-born missionary to be World Cup interpreter for England

Japan-born missionary to be World Cup interpreter for England

KOBE, Japan - Micah Lawrence, a British missionary born in 1970 in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, has been chosen as the official interpreter for the English Football Association (FA) during the upcoming World Cup finals. ''I used to dream of Kevin Keegan in my boyhood days,'' he says.

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