A statue depicting a Guarani indigenous man holding a ball is displayed at the church of San Ignacio, Misiones department, Paraguay. Jesuit missionaries of Paraguay assure that the Guarani indigenous people, who inhabited a great part of the South American continent -from Bolivia to Argentina, including part of Brazil and Uruguay- already played football when the first missionaries settled in the area in the 18th century. An audiovisual material summing up historical documents of the congregation has been launched by the Paraguayan Secretariat of Culture with the title: ‘Guarani people invented football’.
September 07, 2014 | 12:05 AM