It's May 21, 2024, 09:48:11 AM
I don't want to have to say this again manFOOTBALL IS NOT 'JUST' or 'ONLY' A GAMEThe effect it has on countries goes too deep for it to be a game
yer but Argentina never really went into a game thinking it was guna be a piss game. They played Nigeria Sweden and England, I dont think they went into any 1 of those game thinking oh we are defo guna win this. thats why I didnt pu them down. Sweden went into the game against Senegal prob thinkin it was guna be easy along with france and every game they played, Portugal with America and Korea, and all the other teams I said
See, that's where you don't really have any understanding of the gameI know you're into Mexico, but you don't live there - although you have pointed out how much it means to your DadIf you live in America of course it's only a game - and maybe it's better if it is kept as a GAME, maybe America have got it rightBut seriously, why do you think people murder each other over footballYou probably don't realise but when the USA knocked Colombia out of the World Cup in 1994, it was by an own goal. The guy who scored the own goal, Escobar, upon returning home to Colombia, someone just walked up to him and shot him in the head.The World Cup meant everything to everyone in ColombiaIt's pretty sad, but before South Korea's match against Italy today, this 20 year old Korean kid just set himself on fire because he wanted to become the Korean's '12th man'. He thought by killing himself he was helping the team.In the 1998 qualifiers, two minor countries had a disagreement over a match so they just went to war with each other, thousands diedEvery single week I travel 200 miles to watch Manchester United, and apart from my family, they're more important to me than anything. You can like the Lakers, you can say you love them, but nobody would view Basketball as life or death.One of the greatest English managers ever said "Football's not life or death, it's more than that". Living in the US you have no idea.Every English person will say that if England win the World Cup, the country will go mad. It will be so special and will still be talked about in 250 years. No exagerrations.It probably should be just a game. But it's not.
For me football is a passion, thats the best way i can explain it, theres no words to describe how i feel when Highbury erupts on a Saturday afternoon, no words to describe how Jay feels when Roy Keane lifts a trophy in front of thousands at Old Trafford, football is part of so many peoples day to day life its crazy, and theres nothing we can do, we're addicted, for real.
You gotta agree though, at times, Football has the ability to become more than a Sport, in terms of uniting a whole country in celebration, more than any other sport.
Lol with GFunka posting about it, it reminds me of a quote by Gary Liniker"Football is a game, and at the end the Germans win"lol
At times a sport can act as a microcosm to something bigger, like when U.S. hockey beat Russia in the 1982 olympics. At that time, both countries were in a struggle during the Cold War... Russia was the best team in the world and the U.S. was a small hockey team who wasn't suppose to get far... but they beat the Russians in dramatic fashion... and its probably the biggest moment in U.S. olympic history...How about when Senegal beat France this year, it was a big thing because Senegal used to be owned by France... until they were able to become their own... so the sport acts as a Microcosm to bigger things, but in all, its just a game... the fans take it to the other level...-Big BpG