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Aaron Schoenfeld

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american soccer player who currently plays for the columbus crew in major league soccer”. Today it says “israeli-american former professional soccer player who played as a forward”.
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Aaron Maxwell Schoenfeld ( , born April 17, 1990) is an American-Israeli professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Minnesota United in Major League Soccer .1 "שוינפלד אהרן מקסוול" [Aaron Maxwell Schoenfeld] (in Hebrew). "פרסום ראשון: מוחמד גדיר סיכם בהפועל ת"א" [Exclusive: Mohammad Ghadir Agrees Terms With Hapoel TA].2

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american soccer player who currently plays for the columbus crew in major league soccer”. Today it says “israeli-american former professional soccer player who played as a forward”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

american soccer player who currently plays for the columbus crew in major league soccer

Now

israeli-american former professional soccer player who played as a forward

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