In Kunming, there is an amateur football team made up by people mainly from South American countries, and it is simply named the Latino FC.

Alex - the man who created this team in the first place - comes from Chile. Alex and his friends gather twice a week at the Haigeng Sports Center near the Dianchi Lake in Kunming to play football. In just less than one year, they have already built up a squad with 30 to 40 people in all. Their goal is not merely to have fun themselves, but let more people, especially local children and teenagers fall in love with this sport.

A tennis coach who also loves football

We came to know Alex for the first time at an Italian restaurant in downtown Kunming when he was having dinner with a number of friends. He quickly invited us to sit down and began to introduce his friends to us: “he comes from Britain, and the one next to him is from France. Both of them are football coaches.”

Alex comes from Chile, and he was born in Santiago, the capital, in 1990. “I think my family is something that can be called a sports family. All my six uncles love playing football, and my father even dreamed to become a professional player,” he said.

Like many young persons in South America, Alex began practicing football as early as 3 or 4 years old, and soon felt that he was in love with this exciting sport. Alex has long been an active fan of Colo Colo, a local club in Chile, and he is familiar with almost every Chilean footballer playing around the world: Arturo Vidal, Alexis Sanchez, Claudio Bravo, and so forth.

 It’s worth mentioning that Alex chose to study sports engineering at university, which is also linked to football - his hobby. During 5 years of study, he involved himself in organizing various sports events; knowledge and understanding of the entire sports industry were also accumulated.