New Delhi, May 30 -- Azteca Stadium has been graced triumphantly by Pele and Maradona. It's days away from staging its third different World Cup.

And, yet, the Mexican soccer pitch known as the "Field of the Gods" is not the iconic Azteca.

That nickname belongs to a football field nestled inside the crater of an extinct volcano just south of Mexico City.

Teoca volcano serves as the dramatic backdrop for an amateur league organized in the town of Santa Cecilia Tepetlapa in the Xochimilco borough.

Every Sunday, dozens of families from the town of 10,000 inhabitants - a predominantly lower-middle class community - gather to immerse themselves in Mexico's national obsession.

"For us, it's a way of life. Being here on Sundays is part of o...