South American Football, everyone knows it has passion, fervour, fireworks, banners, enthusiastic chanting and even the occasional stabbing. I wanted a piece of that action, well maybe not the stabbing, but I wanted to experience everything else, so Dom and I checked the Saturday fixtures for the Paraguayan Soccer League. As luck would have it there was a match being played that afternoon, and we confirmed it was actually being played, unlike our last attempts in La Paz. We grabbed our cameras and bottles of water and found the nearest taxi to take us to the Roberto Bettega Estadio in Asuncion. Now Paraguayans aren´t mugs at playing football, in fact they made the quarter finals of the 2010 World Cup, which was much better than Australia, England, France and Italy, so we were expecting big things.
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