Monday, 16 August 2010

The only village to beat Wenger’s Arsenal, twice

The rocky landscape of Valle del Chota in northern Ecuador rarely gives the local fruit farmers much to cheer about. One bumper crop the region has been harvesting on a regular basis however is highly talented footballers.

Agustín Delgado and Édison Méndez grew up a stone’s throw from each other in the impoverished village of Chota. It was their goals which inflicted a brace of defeats on Wenger’s Arsenal while the Ecuadorian hitmen were at Southampton and PSV Eindhoven respectively.

Read the full article on Valle del Chota here...

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