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View of a statue depicting a Guarani indigenous man holding a ball at the church of San Ignacio, Misiones department, Paraguay on September 1, 2014. Jesuit missionaries of Paraguay assure that the Guarani indigenous people, who inhabited great part of the South American continent -from Bolivia to Argentina, including part of Brazil and Uruguay- already played football when the first missionaries settled in the area in the XVIII century. An audiovisual material summing up historical documents of the congregation was launched by the Paraguayan Secretariat of Culture with the title: "Guarani people invented football". AFP PHOTO/NORBERTO DUARTE (Photo credit should read NORBERTO DUARTE/AFP via Getty Images)