We love living here! but...... Many latin americans have bad experience with other Americans because of race, ethnicity, and nationality it's common that there is a lot of ignorance regarding cultures which is what differentiates our ways of living in this the USA from other Americans but these different customs trace back to the origin of our culture..... another nation. Loyalty........ How can it be considered wrong to cheer for another nation?
I personally find it harder........ much much harder cheering the team USA for a number of things but mainly because of how uncomfortable it is. It's not the same celebrating with a group of people who would be considered the actual "Americans" whom (some) have certain ignorance or don't understand other cultures specifically speaking Latin American cultures, the cultures that are carried by teams from where our families come from, the Americans team rivals. Also it's uncomfortable having other people whom identify as American only' ignore or put down their own nationalities and talk down countries whom are the origins of their parents. For example, I have seen Mexican Americans who cheer for the USA and talk badly about Mexico or our team, it's extremely uncomfortable.
Hypocrisy, I find this even more uncomfortable because I experience it more than self hating American fans. More than anything I find it annoying but first, I want to point out the World Cup is not limited to only people who live elsewhere.
I find that here there are more football haters than fans and most of them live the USA culture in their lives, their primary sport is American football and they live their lives with the negative outlook of this football that the whole world loves so yes it's definitely uncomfortable seeing the same person who talks so badly about this sport becoming the biggest football fan. Also the bandwagon fans which I briefly mentioned on my other post- Rihanna anyone? That about sums up the bandwagon fans.
There are many ignorant people regarding the history behind other teams and how well they do. They cheer on the USA and they expect the USA to be the eye of the world and win like the Olympics so when Tim Howard their goalkeeper saves 16 times they ignorantly say he is the best goalkeeper compared to Navas or Ochoa which first of all is ridiculous the guy is decent but this exposes the USA's bad defense.
"Haha Ochoa's best game was against Brazil right? Hah only 6 saves? Howard has had 10 more. Get your facts right"
- From a screenshot on twitter of an American "Leap Year Soccer fan" (and yes here in the USA these people are common and no not everyone is like this)
I really don't appreciate the fact that these people who decide to just jump on the World Cup bandwagon to expect the USA to be superior than all the other countries and when they aren't they find little things to praise or make their team look more superior or better. ☝︎Here we have the typical "soccer" fan who doesn't know anything regarding the history of other teams and probably their own team, honestly it's annoying when they put down Keylor Navas or Memo Ochoa whom have had more skill and whom actually deserve recognition of their talent. I have nothing against the USA's goalkeeper but this guy is just a decent goalkeeper compared to Keylor Navas and Memo Ochoa whom they brought down to make Tim Howard look all high mighty! It may be dumb to mention this which I saw on twitter but it bothered me that anyone in this world would mention war even the fact when your not too into this world sport and you decide to speak about war "USA 2 world wars won Germany 0" what what said when they lost to Germany which was honestly really stupid and I hate when people bring up things like wars or superiority in stupid ways during the World Cup! I think this is my main problem the ignorance, lack of knowledge, and disrespect towards other countries and no it's not just the USA but most commonly it is American "soccer" fans. Honestly, I don't turn my back against my country and although I spent my time celebrating for Mexico I wished the best to the USA.
Fun? Celebrations? World Cup and Futbol Customs?
Yes all of this is another reason why I just cannot get into becoming a supporter of the USA. As if it wasn't bad that my fellow Americans are not only cheering against other countries their celebrations are completely different compared to the ones I am used to. At home or in the stadium. I guess I should explain it this way if you ever compare the difference between American parties and Latin American's family celebrations you'll know what the difference is and how much more fun they are. I don't mean to sound biased but it's the truth our culture is more passionate (that's why Latin Americans tend to get emotional over football) and has some of the most fun celebrations around the world. It's also a little more different the way we cheer our team in the stadium:
(By the way this is the famous "Ehhhhhh........ Puto" chant Mexico has had which if I remember started in club America. It's a way of intimidating the goalkeeper before he get's ready to kick the ball Mexican fans forwardly stick their arms in the air wiggle their fingers or hands while shouting "Ehhhhhhh" and when the goalkeeper kicks the ball we pump our fist forward and yell "PUTO", the Brazilian people seemed to like it and used it when Memo kicked the ball and they also used it on the game against Colombia before their defeat.) And no Puto does not mean a "Homophobic slur" as FIFA had said, it depends on the context it's used it means a million things. Here it meant "Coward." We have many chants and if anyone remembers where the wave originally started from:
(Mexico 1986)
Not that there is anything wrong with the way Americans celebrate but to me the reason I fell in love with futbol was through my own culture. I think this may be a reason why many Americans hate football and why they don't necessarily understand it. This leads to my second topic: I love football but I tend to find European teams boring. Compare the Brazil-Mexico game or the Brazil-Chile game against the Germany-Brazil or the Netherlands-Argentina game which was more fun? Which had the most passion in it? If you think it was the games with the European teams you have got to be lying to yourself, I think if Americans who watched football and think it's boring they must have watched the European teams playing! I don't know what it is but there is more action in the games between Latin America. This does not mean that European teams play badly in fact many European teams play really well because they put more money into the game than Latin American countries but the passionate gameplay and action is definitely missing!
By the way I wanted to put up this picture after the Germans beat Brazil 7-1:
Mexico: Chile: Colombia: Costa Rica: Brazil:
"It wasn't a penalty" "It was Pinillas Goal" "It was Yepes Goal" "They changed the goalkeeper" "MOVE IT!!!!!"
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