COMING SECOND IS WAY OF LIFE FOR CATOLICA

JOHN LYONS reports on the Chilean team who have made an art-form of being runners-up

Universidad Católica´s San Carlos de Apoquindo home – with the Andes providing the backdropIf there was a prize for the team with the most hard-luck stories in football over the last 18 months, then Chile’s Universidad Católica would surely win it – or, more likely, come second.You see, they’ve become the nearly team, the gallant runners-up, the defeated semi-finalists, the penalty shoot-out losers, the almost winners. And the fed-up fans have had to bea...

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