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Continental football players abandon position regularly (10)

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I believe the answer is:

interleave

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'continental football players abandon position regularly' is the definition.
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'continental football players abandon' is the wordplay.
'continental football players' becomes 'inter' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'abandon' becomes 'leave' (I've seen this before).
'inter'+'leave'='INTERLEAVE'

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(Other definitions for interleave that I've seen before include "Insert between (book) pages" , "put in blank pages" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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