Saturday is for futbol

Link By Thushan Amarasiriwardena | January 19th, 2008

If Sundays are for football in the U.S., then in Guatemala, Saturday is for futbol. With Quetzaltenango’s team on the road this week, we too hit the road, heading to San Marcos, a city about 1.5 hours back towards Mexico, to catch their team play. Kick the ball around in today’s photo gallery.

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Futbol Argentino Mexicano y espanol » Saturday is for futbol Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 am
[…] unknown Escribio un articulo buenisimo hoyAqui hay un pedazo del articuloIf Sundays are for football in the US, then in Guatemala, Saturday is for futbol. With Quetzaltenango’s team on the road this week, we too hit the road, heading to San Marcos, a city about 1.5 hours back towards Mexico, to catch their … Lea el resto de este fabuloso articulo here Posted in Uncategorized Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. […]
Gabe R Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
What is it about hitchhiking in Central America that makes it such a poor choice?

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