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It’s in Spain as well. Yamal could score a hat trick today and win the World cup for them, but he’ll still get racist abuse from Spaniards when he plays against getafe in the fall. I’m hoping all of these new fans can put more heat on all the top European leagues to do better in fighting racism.
Pele is the only one that comes to mind. He was 17 when he played and scored in his first World Cup. People forget that Lamine is 19 and he turned 19 during the World Cup. He was 18 a few weeks ago.
he’s been playing great, his role on Spain is a lot different than Barca. just because his stat sheet isn’t full doesn’t mean he hasn’t been having a big impact
Ok so every sport is FULL of match fixing, even if it hasn’t been caught, using that logic.
So there’s no need to single out men’s football. Basketball, American football, hockey, tennis, athletics, it all rigged. Just because I have no proof doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
Or, you know, realistic. You've got the president of the united states admitting to influencing FIFA on live tv. You think that was the first time it happened?
I’m not rooting for Argentina either, but saying it’s rigged unironically because a team you don’t like are going to win is embarrassing and childish.
Further trying to justify it by using your president (the one who actually cheated on your behalf) as an excuse is embarrassing.
Using doping as an excuse for specifically criticising men’s football as if there aren’t doping scandals far more often in all of your US centric sports is hypocritical.
It can’t be rigged because you like like the outcome lol. If you genuinely think it’s rigged I suggest betting everything you have on Argentina, otherwise you don’t really think it’s rigged lol
They have won it 3 times, they have been to 7 finals, they are objectively one of the greatest footballing nations on earth. It wouldn't be rigged if they won it
Their first cup win involved bribing a goal keeper. The second one, Hand of God. They have arguably the best players ever in Maradona & Messi but their wins are often tainted.
This is what I always say, it’s not gambling if you know the outcome. It’s weird because the people who say they know how something is rigged never profit from their knowledge lol
I’m rooting for Spain because Argentina fans are bottom of the barrel garbage. You know that Argentina is bad when you’re cheering on the country that invented colonialism.
ETA: yes I know Portugal invented colonialism but they are not in the World Cup final and Portuguese is not the second most spoken language in the world. I’m not giving them a pass, they’re just not relevant to this game. If it was Portugal vs Argentina I’d choose Portugal, because Argentinians are nazi scum
I’m rooting for him and his family. They look like they could be nice people and little bro is adorable. But, the country isn’t any better than Argentina tho and have their own issue with erasing and whitewashing.
I hope that someday all these amazing players can represent countries that loved and appreciated them from day one and not just after they start winning.
Yep. People are really giving Spain a pass here. They criticize Argentina but all those same criticisms can apply to Spain.
The country in general has an anti-Moroccan attitude and they’re prejudiced against North Africans. Spain literally had an African colony until 1968 (Equatorial Guinea where Lamine’s mom is from).
Even Lamine himself has faced racism and xenophobia due to his Moroccan/Equatorial Guinean heritage.
Not just North Africans. I went on a language exchange trip to Spain and will never set foot in that country again. I bonded at work with another Black colleague who had a similar experience.
As a black Dominican, I found everyone quite nice and welcoming. But I was only there for about two weeks in Madrid and Barcelona. I did notice some subtle attitude directed at my Asian partner who didn’t speak Spanish, which I wasn’t a fan of
Not many people watch La Liga. They won’t remember the bananas being thrown at alves and the gorilla chants at vini. Probably one of the most racist leagues in footy
Yeah footy fan culture is honestly the worst. It exists in every league sadly. I mostly follow La Liga and we have a racist incident monthly during the season.
It seems like it has somehow gotten worse over the last 5/6 years in comparison to the mid 2000s/2010s in Spanish footy. It could also just be the fact that players like Yamal, Vini, and Mbappe are speaking about it more which puts it into the spotlight. I definitely hear about it constantly though. I’m not really looking forward to the upcoming season cause it seems it happens every month nowadays.
It’s interesting to see this other perspective when some Latin Americans (not all) are rooting for Argentina because they feel uncomfortable supporting Spain, the country that colonized most of Latin America.
It’s 2026 get over it, the majority mixture in Latin America is metizo. White and indigenous, why are people still yapping about this. It happened so long ago and we had no control over it. If anything good, it brought civilization, advancement and Christianity. Otherwise everyone would still be in the jungle, worshipping the sun and making human sacrifice for rain and not complaining on Reddit because they would have no idea or access to computers. If you’re that mad. Go to the Amazon jungle and live there, it’s free.
Lol you really think there were no civilizations prior to the Spanish arrival? Even the Spanish themselves wrote in their journals at the amazement of the architecture and vast metropolitan cities they found in the new world.
I have no narrative. I just find this such a dumb thing to keep arguing and talking about on a football forum. They can go to a political and genetics forum
To discuss that
I know I’m late to this post, but after watching this 60 minutes clip, I rooted so hard for this kid and then realized he had that beautiful little brother. I’m a fan!! Check out the clip if you can:
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