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And this summer, they're helping us explore cool and unusual stories from host cities during the biggest tournament in the world.

Juan Carlos Nunez is a journalist from Guadalajara.

I'm very interested in histories of my city.

He's written a book about the people who have made the city what it is.

His family has lived in Guadalajara for generations,

and he grew up there in the 1970s.

When I was a young, we could play football in the streets, passamos much time.

And even though it was a big city, for Juan Carlos, it had that community feel,

the type of place where kids could still play soccer in the streets.

Since I was a new, that I was in the streets. His dad would take him on walks through downtown.

They passed by a striking mix of buildings,

neo-gothic cathedrals, a theater building with Corinthian columns,

a grand government mansion decorated with murals.

And there's one building downtown that's a little less sholi, a little less ordained.

On those walks when he was little, Juan Carlos didn't think too much about it.

But today, the building stands out for a different reason.

There is a bronze statue of a man leaning against it.

But people think that he is drunk.

People named the sculpture like the drunk man, the barraccio.

The man the statue commemorates is not, in fact, a baracho.

But you could say this man was drunk on something else,

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