More than 30 thousand Boca Juniors fans attended the match against Bayern Munich, in Miami. EFE/EPA/Cristobal Herrera -ulashkevich
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Football lives in another way, as a matter of life or death, an overflowing passion that consumes their time, their savings and health. In the United States Club World Cup, a country without soccer tradition, Latin American fans are once more responsible for putting the atmosphere.
A year after the Copa América in the American giant, here they are again to show that there are no more delivered hobbies than his. That nowhere is the king sport as in its continent.
On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of followers from Boca Juniors invade a Miami Beach park for its traditional flag, on the eve of the clash against Bayern Munich in the Hard Rock Stadium.
There are cumbias in the speakers, meat in the grills and, above all, a great communion between members of the same Boquense family. The event has been attended by numerous fans from Argentina, and also from places like California or Spain.
Ignacio Tedesco, 24, did not want to miss this party after traveling from the province of Buenos Aires to follow the club of his life.
“If Boca wins, I'm happy. If Boca loses or ties, I'm sad. If Boca is well football, I feel complete in life. And if not, it's a vacuum,” he says. “Boca is all for me. Beyond a love, beyond a homeland, beyond everything is mouth.”
Soccer is a party
That excess contrasts with the rest of the fans, less demonstrative, more rational.
“The South Americans have a very hot blood for football, and that is great. We love and give ourselves,” says Brazilian Livia Beatriz de Araújo, a 36 -year -old financial worker who traveled from Lisbon to support Fluminense against Borussia Dortmund in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Another fan of the Carioca Club, Luiz Alfonso Chaves Jr., a 43 -year -old lawyer who went from Rio de Janeiro, is clear: “If it depended on the Europeans, this (the atmosphere in the stadiums) would not happen. Only the South American makes this party.”
In New Jersey, the fans of the flow rent even a ship to celebrate on the Hudson River. And in Philadelphia, those of Flamengo mass the Rocky statue, the boxer of the unforgettable film starring Sylvester Stallone, and dressed it with garments of the red and black team.
“Yesterday we arrived in New York and wherever you were, everything you saw were T -shirts of Brazilian teams: Del Flamengo, El Palmeiras, El Botafogo, El Fluminense,” says Engineer Thiago Maciel Dos Santos, a fan of the 38 -year -old Fla, who traveled to Pennsylvania to see the victory of the Cariocas against Chelsea.
“We are more passionate,” he adds. “We sing, we are together and travel to follow the team.”
Soccer in South America, a philosophy of life
In all these fans it shows a certain pride to be so, to surrender to sport with this fervor. They don't know or want to live it differently.
For Fernando Pascual, present in the Boca flag, that difference with the rest of the hobbies responds to different life philosophies.
“In Argentina we are very passionate talking about politics, football, everything,” explains this psychology student who traveled from General Pico, in the Argentine province of La Pampa.
“I think that the American public does not pursue these things so much passion, because in the end this does not make you win money, it gives you anything other than the satisfaction of knowing that your club is winning,” he adds. “I think Latin Americans were very raised by traditions.”
As to demonstrate his words, a blue and gold tide has begun to move to the neighboring beach, waving mouth flags and his biggest myth, the eternal Diego Armando Maradona.
The party continues to the ocean to the sound of “Give Boca, give him bo!”, And continue on Friday night in a Hard Rock Stadium in Miami turned into a second Bombonera.
There, in front of the great Bayern Munich, the Xeneize fights, but ends up giving in the last minutes 2-1.
Only then, with the German goal of triumph, the bostera fans shut up for a few minutes. But soon he takes up his songs, his unfailing support, in victory as in defeat.
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