Hola, listeners. For this special season of the Duolingo Spanish podcast, we're revisiting

some of our favorite stories from indigenous communities across Latin America.

Today we'll travel to Paraguay, to hear an episode from October 2019, where we'll meet the

country's first indigenous soccer team and their captain, Jose Elias Argania. Keep listening

to hear his inspiring journey and stay tuned at the end for an update on Jose Elias and his team.

Now onto the episode.

Puerto Diana is a small indigenous village in Paraguay. It doesn't normally get national attention,

but this year something extraordinary happened in that community.

Gol, gol, gol.

That's Jose Elias Argania, captain of club Sportivo Puerto Diana, the village's famous soccer team.

Like most people in his community, Jose Elias usually speaks a local language called Ishii,

but to celebrate a goal, he uses a universal word.

But we're poor too.

We only have a ball and many players don't have their own shoes.

Zapatillas are athletic shoes. In this case, the word refers to soccer cleats.

As in most of South America, professional soccer in Paraguay is a privilege of urban areas

where wealth and sponsors are concentrated. That's why the whole country was in shock when club

Puerto Diana qualified to play in the Copa Paraguay, the National League.

Journalists soon announced club Puerto Diana's victory as a miracle.

An event of biblical proportions.

Club Puerto Diana was the little David dreaming to defeat Goliath, the giants of the National League.

We were nervous.

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