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In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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It is the game which, ultimately, could define the success or otherwise of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane’s expensive Republic of Ireland tenure. Installed amid much fanfare 18 months ago, £1million-per-year O’Neill and his assistant Keane – with a £600,000 salary - were given a remit of qualification for Euro 2016, a task made easier by the expansion to a 24-team format. Defeat against Poland at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday, however, would all but render redundant any hope of automatic progression to next summer’s finals in France. It would be they and Scotland left to do battle for the play-off berth.Ireland play Poland in a Euro 2016 qualifier at the Aviva Stadium on SundayMartin O'Neill's side are three points behind group leaders PolandThe Ireland manager has been criticised for failing to make an impactO'Neill acknowledges significance of the game in relation to qualification 
 Question:The _ players are out through their paces in preparation for the Euro 2016 clash.
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Republic of Ireland


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(CNN) "When is your Shariah going to end? ... We know you are in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood!" an irate white woman screamed in the face of a brown-skinned politician at his town hall meeting on Wednesday night. Sixteen years after 9/11, bigoted remarks like these against Muslims -- or even those perceived to be Muslim -- have become disturbingly commonplace. And our President, who during his campaign openly attacked Muslims with false claims -- that "thousands" of Muslim Americans cheered in New Jersey on 9/11, for example -- isn't helping matters. In the case of this incident, the politician who was subject to this barrage of anti-Muslim comments, Jagmeet Singh, is not even Muslim. Singh, who is running to be the head of the New Democratic Party, one of Canada's political parties, could've simply told the heckler, "I'm not a Muslim. I'm a Sikh." But he didn't. Nor did he respond by screaming at the heckler or publicly dismissing her as a bigot.Dean Obeidallah: Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh taught us an important lesson about love this past weekIn the face of hate, he chose kindness and acceptance -- an approach all of us could benefit from, Obeidallah writes 
 Question:As a _, I can't thank Singh enough for refusing to simply take the easy way out by responding, "I'm not Muslim."
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Muslim Brotherhood


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(CNN) The family of a young Afghan boy, who gained worldwide fame after being photographed wearing a makeshift Lionel Messi soccer jersey fashioned from a plastic bag, has fled to Pakistan after receiving threats, the father of the boy told CNN. The family is now living in Quetta and has submitted an application with the United Nations seeking asylum in Pakistan. "I received 20-30 unknown threatening calls in Afghanistan asking why I'm teaching my kid about football and not teaching him about the Quran," the boy's father, Muhammad Arif Ahmadi, told CNN. The family decided to flee to Pakistan 40 days ago for their safety, he said.The boy's older brother made the jersey from a plastic bagThe family had received threats in Afghanistan, the boy's father says 
 Question:"I love Messi and want to meet _," the boy said.
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Lionel Messi