<p>Brutally tough return to tournament awaits, but the stature of opposition feels less important than the fact of being here at all</p><p>It was an arrival worth more than half a century of waiting. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) players strolled into the arrivals hall of George Bush airport on Thursday kitted out in tuxedo suits and leopard-print sashes, channelling <em>La Sape </em>
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