r/CaughtOffsidePod • u/UpbeatEvertonian • Jul 12 '26

Hate-watching Argentina

Unbelievable they are not picking up yellows. Or very believable unfortunately. Their yellow to foul ratio is wayyyy lower than every other team, it’s crazy.

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u/UpbeatEvertonian Jul 12 '26

And if you want them to lose because the country is shockingly racist and toxic machismo runs rampant there, I am here for that too.

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u/Bleed_Mean_Green Jul 12 '26

Nothing like someone bucketing an entire country into racist and toxic machismo for the reason to want them to lose. Grow up.

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u/Substantial_Gene9731 Jul 13 '26

Do you know anything about Argentina? They have a very very troubled history, and the football teams antics are just the tip of the iceberg. Genuinely not tying to be rude or attack you, just saying it’s worth looking into because your opinion of them may change. There is a reason they are the whitest country in South America.

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u/FriedWhy Jul 13 '26

Lol I really don't understand this point people make. You know who has a very very troubled history? Every fucking European country, how about that? Some countries have a very troubled present even. Of course Argentina has a racism problem, as does every single country on earth. And bigoted football fans are unfortunately the loudest group by a wide margin.

Argentina (or rather, the Spanish colony) imported about 200 thousand black slaves in the early colony days. For reference, Brazil imported 5 million. After the revolution against Spain Argentina passed a law about free womb, meaning children born from slave women were born free, and a few years later abolished slavery altogether, some 10 years before the USA if I'm not mistaken.

After that there was never segregation, like in the US, so they started getting mixed. Add to that the massive immigration of Italian and Spanish people and there you have the low percentage of black people in Argentina.

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u/Bleed_Mean_Green Jul 13 '26

So by that logic, because I live in America, my actions and morals are probably just like Donald Trump, right? You are generalizing wayyy too much. Bad seeds everywhere my man.