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‘More than a team’ - the history behind Palestino football club
Palestino playing Iquique in Santiago, Chile, in 2016
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THIS is the first of what will be a fortnightly column from The Roaring Red Front, covering a fixture involving one of our leftist/anti-fascist teams, and also providing some background to the teams involved and the politics that drive their supporters. You can see the book that inspired the column and the Football Supporters' Charters at www.
Palestino 1-0 Colo Colo
by Stewart McGill
La Cisterna, Santiago de Chile
When you see a game based in Santiago between one team named after Palestine and another named after a famous Mapuche chieftain who had some successes against the Spanish invader, you realise (i) why Latin America is the home of magical realism and (ii) something of the ambiguity that characterises these Mestizo lands.
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