Argentine Soccer Returns to its Origins in Glasgow

November 19, 2008

GLASGOW, November 18th, 2008 (AFP) – This Wednesday, the Argentine Soccer Selection is playing a friendly match against Scotland at Hampden Park, a stadium located three kilometers away from where Alexander Watson Hutton, founder and first president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), was born.

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For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]

Argentine Soccer Returns to its Origins in Glasgow

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