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Football in Chile

A fan of Chile's Cobresal holds a Chilean national flag before his team plays against Paraguay's General Diaz in their Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Luque near Asuncion, August 20, 2014.

A tiny mining town in the middle of the Atacama desert wins Chile’s national soccer title

May 1, 2015Sports

The sad truth about “David versus Goliath” sports stories is that David rarely wins. Not this year in Chile. A David from the Atacama desert just took down the Goliath of Santiago.

Soccer match that disgraced Chile recalled 40 years later

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The Soccer Match That Disgraced Chile

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