Una victoria en la cancha (A Victory on the Soccer Field)
Duolingo Spanish Podcast
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4.5 • 14.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In May 2019, twenty Paraguayan soccer players traveled from their hometown to Asunción, the nation’s capital, to play the most important game of their lives. Led by their captain, José Elías Argaña, they were the first indigenous team to qualify to Paraguay’s national soccer league.
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| 0:00.0 | Puerto Diana is a small indigenous village in Paraguay. |
| 0:05.0 | It doesn't normally get national attention, but this year something extraordinary happened |
| 0:10.3 | in that community. |
| 0:11.7 | One, one, go! |
| 0:14.7 | That's José Elias Argania, captain of Club Sportivo Puerto Diana, the village's famous soccer |
| 0:25.4 | team. |
| 0:26.4 | Like most people in his community, José Elias usually speaks a local language called |
| 0:31.3 | Ishii, but to celebrate a goal, he uses a universal word. |
| 0:36.8 | Gol. |
| 0:37.8 | Nuestro equipo es coben el intrépido, pero también somos pobres. |
| 0:45.1 | Solo tenemos una pelota y muchos jugadores no tienen zapatillas. |
| 0:50.9 | Zapatillas are athletic shoes. |
| 0:53.7 | In this case, the word refers to soccer cleats. |
| 0:56.9 | As in most of South America, professional soccer in Paraguay is a privilege of urban areas |
| 1:02.5 | where wealth and sponsors are concentrated. |
| 1:05.9 | That's why the whole country was in shock when Club Puerto Diana qualified to play in |
| 1:11.2 | the Copa Paraguay, the National League. |
| 1:14.7 | Nosotros éramos el primer equipo indígena que iba a jugar la Copa Paraguay. |
| 1:21.7 | Todos los medios de comunicación lo decían. |
| 1:25.8 | Los protagonistas de la jornada hablamos de los integrantes del equipo de Puerto Diana. |
| 1:30.6 | Que viancaron. |
| 1:31.6 | Journalists soon announced Club Puerto Diana's victory as a miracle, an event of biblical |
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