Why do Latin Americans care so much about the Real Madrid/Barcelona rivalry? A lot of Northern Irish supporters follow the Old Firm derby in Scotland because it represents Protestantism vs Catholicism, Loyalism vs Republicanism, Conservatism vs Socialism, etc.
Real Madrid represents Spanish nationalism while Barcelona represents Catalonian nationalism. Why would latin Americans care about that?
You mean Mexicans/Chicanos.
one, they're the two best teams in the world. two, they speak spanish.
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Central americans, mexicans and chicanos support Real Madrid and Barcelona above all else. We have our own teams.
>they speak spanish.
This.
Same reason most of us burgers bandwagon the Prem and not Serie A or bundes.
hue is correct
they follow BOTH real madrid and barca (whichever is winning more recently) and stay faithful only to their mexican club
they are all short fat indios with gobs of hairgel in their hair and attempt a ronaldo haircut.
Because it's something different from the usual bread-and-butter local league, which more often than not is a pain to watch.
they usually have the best players and some of them are fun to watch, I'm actually glad people here pay attention to their games instead of watching la liga™ mx™
Australia doesn't go mad over Premier League fixtures, neither does India, South Africa or any other former British Colony. And according to everyone else in the thread, other Latin American countries don't really care about the fixture that much. Why do Americans/Mexicans feel the need to bandwagon teams that are thousands of miles away from them, teams that they'll probably get to watch in the flesh?
Those countries aren't big soccer countries. And MLS and Liga MX are plainly not good quality.
Over where I live Muslims care most about Real Barca matchups
Because there's always a country men around these teams. That's why.
>Catalonia
>nation
Pick one.
For Australia I would guess purely because of time difference, if a game kicks off at 3 pm here, it'll be 4 am for them. Yet when Liverpool played in Australia for a pre-season friendly they sold out the MCG which is over 100k people.
Australia is unironically becoming a football crazy country with the amount of immigrants they take in, most of them being from Europe or the middle east.
We speak portuguese and Benfica x Porto isn't a relevant thing here
You have a strong domestic league
Because any time right-wing authoritarians are pitted against left-wing radicals, Latinos go nuts for it.
because it would be boring to watch them without supporting one of them
besides we got our own local league we also follow
soccer is big in Australian cities
Because it's the two biggest football clubs in the world facing off
Everybody who cares about football cares about it
Only in the CL
Who gives a fuck about other domestic competitions
people from south america give a fuck about Barca/Real (and La Liga) in general because south americans, especially argeninians have historically represented a huge chunk of the foreign players in the league.
It is in any other former colony
Most people do
Especially the two biggest clubs in the world, La Liga Clasico's get over 100 million views
>derbies mean something no-football related
worst meme ever
you must never been in a football field i guess
Both teams have latin american players, and will probably always have them. My dad is a fan of Ivan Zamorano and he used to play in the Real Madrid, so I grown up watching the matches of the real madrid in tv with my dad and I still do.
They get even more than that, vast majority being (South)Americans though.
Europe less so, and in the UK you'd struggle to find a pub showing it
It's usually the best entertainment in first-division world soccer whenever they meet. I don't care about the copa del rey at all, but I'll tune in to see footballing quality and moments like Bale's winner a couple seasons ago.
Meanwhile any big match in the PL is guaranteed to be a dull 0-0 or 1-1 (unless Tottenham are playing).
>over 100 million views
Around 600 million
I doubt it. I am pretty sure it wouldn't be that hard to find
Di Stefano and Messi
If it is hard to find you were right about leaving the EU
We don't have anything better to do
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>I doubt it. I am pretty sure it wouldn't be that hard to find
Until recently it was downright illegal due to our football broadcasting restrictions
I don't know why Portugal and Brazil don't communicate
But Latin America and Spain have a lot of ties. Spanish and Argentine press regularly swap places (Argentine journalist is invited to Spanish show and/or Spanish journalist is invited to Argentine show)
>>over 100 million views
>Around 600 million
the delusion
both estimates are absurdly overrated, even a random group stage match of the world cup gets more views than "el clasico" meme
The estimation of 600 million is wrong, however it really is between 50-100 million
>even a random group stage match of the world cup gets more views than "el clasico" meme
don't know why thats surprising. even with shit random games it's still the biggest tournament in the world
I can understand brazilians liking it as some relevant players from NT play in both teams, nobody outside Europe cares about political bullshit in football teams
They're the best teams in the world, and they also speak Spanish. We have something in common with them.
Not to mention Barca and Real Madrid have some football academies around the continent.
>there goes the anglo with his latin america bullshit.
The only places that care about euro teams are where teams have never won jack shit.
Maybe people will watch a game but they don't care if the club loses or not.
Their Partido dos Trabalhadores doesn't care for it. I'd guess it comes from their marxist-aligned values to not foster a relationship with the former colonizer in a special form (if at all)
We have CPLP but it doesn't do much. We can't even agree on an ortographic agreement
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Lots of their countrymen play in la liga because they have it easier to get the spanish citizenship than other people
It's ancient thing. When Brazil get independent, the elites' iniciative was to go farer possible than Portugal. Even many of then have changed portuguese surnames by indigenous surnames.
>Real Madrid represents Spanish nationalism while Barcelona represents Catalonian nationalism
No, they don't represent shit, stop sperging your anglo divide everywhere.
no one cares about portugal because it's irrelevant, simple as that, just like no one cares about espirito santo and other states of equivalent size and importance.
Because we are cucKs
Idc about the rivalry, but the level of futbol has been bomb as of late.
Yeah
Because we made everything possible to distant ourselves from Portugal, it is a recent thing we trying to make our ties stronger
All your clubs are better than Porto.
>Real Madrid represents Spanish nationalism while Barcelona represents Catalonian nationalism
Represented*
Today, both are marketing tools that only represent themselves.
WHY DO FORMER COLONIES WATCH THE LEAGUE OF THEIR FORMER RULER THAT HAS MORE PLAYERS OF THEIR NATIONS AND THE SAME LANGUAGE???
As for me, I like good football and Real Madrid and Barcelona are 2 of the best 5 clubs in the world for sure
Why don't they watch buyernwinsliga or literallywhowonligue1?
>Real Madrid represents Spanish nationalism while Barcelona represents Catalonian nationalism.
?
Please watch their league
down with Gremio and Cruzeiro senpai
Gremio and Cruzeiro don't play in Portuguese League
you mean 10yo kids
the jews basically
>Real Madrid represents Spanish nationalism
Really makes you think
They seem to play each other like 5 times a season so it loses it's luster after a while. The European draws are cool though.
spanish natioanlism is just being anticatalan
nothing else
Messi, Suarez, Nerman and all the rest are marketable as fuck. No one knows or cares about spanish politics.
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>a fucking football game between two teams in a shitter league and the subsequent brawls between their bydlo working class scum fans "represents Protestantism vs Catholicism, Loyalism vs Republicanism, Conservatism vs Socialism, etc."
>Almost any form of Christian symbolism is censored or removed in order to market towards the Middle East
>If the opposite were to happen, we would never hear the end of it
Never fails to make me seethe, and I'm not typically religious
Every Arab i know here in londonstan
..and Paris likes el. Clasico i think 600 mil is ott. But maybe 200 mil. With qatar/turkey/etc
thought you said "our" league
>Real Madrid represents Spanish nationalism while Barcelona represents Catalonian nationalism. Why would latin Americans care about that?
ETERNAL ANGLO TRYING TO STRIKE AGAIN
half of the american flags in Sup Forums are chicanos/mexicans who like Real Madrid or Barca
it's kind of funny when they make threads about Ronaldo or Messi
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Because mexican football sucks ass.
>Real Madrid represents Ronaldo while Barcelona represents Messi
fixed that for you
there bandwagoners but its good for business,latin americans spend so much on anything soccer/football , have a chicano friend who has like 20 soccer shirts its ridiculous
every football fan have a lot of shirts.
It is fun to collect and comfy to wear.
true
because they have sick fucking players and its fun to watch them?
The same reason people watched the Lakers vs. the Celtics, Magic vs. Bird, Messi vs. Ronaldo.
It represents the best football in the entire world, not just Latin Americans care about it
They are fun to use and collect but note comphy at all
It is true, our country is becoming full of football loving asians, indians, greeks, slavs and italians. Half our mens national team has eastern european heritage.
>Strong domestic league
Fred and Jo are """"world class"""" in that league
No, we know that they are meme players and only fans of the teams that Fred and Jô are playing rate them.
Europe buys our best players so we're stuck with washed up, shit, old and/or meme players like them.
The real pichichi
they filled out the stadium because a huge club coming to town is a big deal that might not happen for years. same shit happened here when the big CL teams came to play Steaua or CFR. people paid out of the ass for overpriced tickets because they didnt know if they'd ever have the chance of seeing their team play them ever again.
meanwhile australias domestic league has shit attendance that has zero growth year on year and is miles behind aussie rules and many other sports in popularity.
Don't people get bored of La Liga when the same two teams are at the top virtually every single season in history? Juvewinslol is getting boring now so I can't imagine like 100 years of this shit.