Carnival Celeste

Arica, a city in the far north of Chile has had a twenty-seven year wait for its football club to win promotion back to the top flight of Chilean football. I have followed San Marcos de Arica  since moving here in April 2011 by attending nearly every home match in that time.  Under the scorching

San Marcos de Arica 3 – 0 Union Temuco

On Sunday 10th June 2012 the city of Arica that lies in the extreme north of Chile was in party mood, remembering fifty years since it hosted a World Cup Quarter Final between Chile and the USSR in which the home side ran out 2-1 winners, the script seemed to be written for the locals