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League of Nations: Immigrant soccer players from across the globe go balls out at a tiny park in north St. Louis

By Keegan Hamilton July 23, 2008

On a recent Sunday in north St. Louis' DeSoto Park, several hundred onlookers are gathered around two rocky soccer fields. On this sun-kissed afternoon they've come to see a group of weekend warriors do battle in the city's most hard-core... More >>>

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Jose Luis Gonzalez and his son Edison pose at DeSoto Park. Gonzalez, 61, played professionally in Mexico and for the 1971 St. Louis Stars.

Jesse Lippert, above, was goalkeeper for the league's defending champions, Chivas, which has since quit the league in protest.

Mario Madera, player/coach of the club Necaxa, is a seventeen-year veteran of La Liga Latino Americana de Fútbol.

Darwen Albarada, age seventeen, is one of the league's many talented young players. He starts on the front line for the Honduran team Catrachos Boys.

From fruit carts to taco stands, all types of food vendors encircle the soccer fields at DeSoto Park.

Alberto Gutierrez has been the president and organizer of La Liga Latino for the past seven years.

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