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re: Post here if you pulled for Mexico today
Posted on 6/17/14 at 5:34 pm to Pettifogger
Posted on 6/17/14 at 5:34 pm to Pettifogger
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Let's be honest, there is a lot of trumped up hate for Mexico because US soccer fans want a rivalry so they can mimic our European and South American counterparts. It's a little forced. Doesn't mean we shouldn't hate them, but most of the people claiming to hate them have no first hand experience.
It's not forced at all. In terms of international soccer, US/Mexico is one of the best.
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Posted on 6/17/14 at 5:39 pm to Broski
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It's not forced at all. In terms of international soccer, US/Mexico is one of the best.
I think it is a genuine rivalry, but there are a lot of USMNT fans who have psyched themselves into it. There are tons of relatively new soccer fans in the US, so this is pretty natural. I don't want to call them bandwagon fans, but the fact that we're a big country where soccer isn't prominent results in a lot of our "fan base" being pretty detached from the team itself.
Kinda like a diehard Bama fan in New England who has never been to an Iron Bowl or lived around Auburn fans but picks up hatred via YouTube videos and second hand accounts. That's what I mean by forced.
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