Picture this: a group of friends has just finished their regular weekly 8-a-side game and is hanging out, drinking beers. Amid the banter and the satisfaction from how the match turned out, someone throws out an idea: “Why don’t we start a real team? We do pretty well in the tournaments we participate in. Who […]
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Nearly six months had passed since the outbreak of the Chaco War when the club we’re focusing on today was founded—a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia. While this war might not be widely known in Europe, it was a brutal clash between two impoverished nations, both believing that the Chaco region and its oil reserves […]
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Two thousand eight hundred and eighty. That’s the number of meters that separate Iruya from sea level, up there in the Andes. Yet, it’s not just the altitude, a bit lower than the summit of Mount Olympus for comparison, that makes it different. La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, sits at 3,640 meters. Its uniqueness […]
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No matter how systems change and football evolves, we often return to its primal questions. Spectacle or outcome? Victory or good football? If the eternal battle between good and evil, spirit and matter, light and darkness could be transposed onto football, then the main role in football’s… Manichaeism would be played by the duo of […]
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