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Deportivo Cuenca

Deportivo Cuenca
I recently attended my first Ecuadorian professional soccer match. It was amazing.

Cuenca’s team, Deportivo Cuenca, faced an Estonian club squad in a pre-season warm-up exhibition. Cuenca, a small, speedy, skillful side, won 3-0. The sold-out crowd of 18,000 was electric: their cheers and songs were perfectly choreographed, and they ignited flares when Cuenca scored.

And interestingly, not only could you buy beer and other snacks in the stands, but roving vendors also offered bottles of the Ecuadorian sugar cane liquor, Zhumir, along with small plastic cups for shots.

(Related item: “On Soccer and America,” an article I penned last summer.)

EX2adventures.com
Back in the States, my friend Jim Harman has just launched EX2adventures.com. Jim masterminded the annual VentureQuest outdoor adventure race, near Washington, DC. I shall never forgive him for convincing me to participate in the inaugural event.

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