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With its soccer team in the European Championship semifinals for the first time since 1984, Spain keeps finding new ways to express its excitement. The sports daily Marca claims more than 10,000 people have pledged to shave their heads if Spain wins the title. Spain plays Russia in the semifinals today in Vienna, Austria. Those signing up took the following pledge: “I, a hardline fan all my life, do hereby solemnly promise, before , the country’s fans and the team, to shave every last hair off my Spanish head if the team wins Euro 2008.” “The team needs all the support it can get from its fans,” the paper wrote on its website. L.A. Times
