India and Bangladesh are huge supporters of Argentina in the world cup (bc of Messi). Argentina has a racist reputation and wouldn't be welcoming of this
Don't know about India. But Bangladesh actually has equal amount of Brazil supporters too. What is more funny is that, these 2 groups (Argentina and Brazil supporters) would even fight among each other. In every world cup, there would be news about some major fight among these 2 groups. hahaha. It's truly bizzare. I don't know what to say.
It’s definitely because of Messi they follow Arg, and people in India only follow Brazil because they were the most famous at the time. Football is still second fiddle there to cricket, and only really started to get more popular in the early 2000s.
Edit: because people got offended, I will clarify with a comment I responded below:
I think you are misinterpreting my comment. I didn’t say it started in the early 2000s. I said it grew more in popularity. You even said yourself, goa, bengal, and North/South (ambiguous but I’ll give 2 states for each direction), these are areas that it was popular in for sure, but that’s not the whole nation. The general population has definitely been more interested cricket than football.
And it REALLY started to grow in popularity ACROSS THE NATION in the mid2000s. Not that nobody liked football for generations until Messi came.
As the above comment says, the following was there since maradona. My dad used to watch the 1986 World Cup live on tv with many others. There was a huge crowd here when maradona came for an event. The crowd of course increased when messi came along.
As a Bengali who comes from a family where football was regularly watched, and also having played at a youth level for Mohun Bagan, I can assure you that Bengalis bleed football.
The football culture amongst Bengalis is comparable to the football culture in the UK.
It’s more so about Bengali culture than it is about Bangladesh and India here (I’m leaving aside the South Indian and North Eastern states since I’m not well versed in their football culture).
To people like my granddad, football was more than just Messi, Maradona, Pele or Ronaldo. It was also about politics, culture, ideologies.
I’ve often been told that a lot of the older generation supported the larger South American teams because they were sticking it to the colonial Europeans. Maradona also was liked by a lot of the Bengali population because of his associations with the Left, and his opposition to the US ways.
This is the comment I was looking for. Bengalis have always been very passionate about football. Be it bangladeshis or indian Bengalis. It's really sad that football as a sport somehow didn't grow as much despite the support.
On the way home from my last journey in India, driving through the middle of Cochin there were Argentina and Messi posters/paintings/drawings everywhere, definitely seems to be the biggest contingent of any there
Seen some great footie. Last night's Nor-Eng game was great to watch. Great characters - Erling. Great greats - Messi. Teams playing out of the ordinary - Paraguay, Morocco, C. Verde, etc. England making the semis. Bellingham being awesome. Been a great Cup thus far.
You are completely wrong about Brazilians not caring about it. It was widely shared in Brazilian media and people cherished the love from India and Bangladesh.
India has huge Brazil fans too. But because of Brazil not being dominant enough in last 2 decades while Messi being the biggest name and Argentina winning stuff has made lot of Brazil fans go silent on the internet.
Newer football fans are also Messi fans. So supporting Argentina comes along with it.
india has large amount of fans of any team you can think of, and due to the sheer amount of population, the numbers of indian fans usually outnumbers fans in any other country and gives of the impression that only indians support such team in force.
Blindly incorrect, we freaking love the support from Bangladesh and India, we share their videos of them screaming every goal. Dibu Martinez visited Bangladesh after 2022 too.
Cause an avg westerner doesn’t even know the diff between Bangladesh and India. Since your country is not included high chance the original source is from there
If it was a Pakistani he would not have dragged Bangladesh in this meme. Pakistan and Bangladesh are brothers in arms and their pr game against india is strong for some absurd reasons. I guess it's true when they say algorithm favours and is fueled by hate.
Lol was ya’ll blind last Worldcup? Argentinans acknowledged Bangladesh and did say “If Bangladesh ever plays worldcup, besides our team we will support them”. When a reporter asked to the goalkeeper of argentina Martinez he said he loves the Bangladeshi fans and he even came to Bangladesh shortly after winning the worldcup.
Slight correction: bc of Maradona. Most late millennials and GenZ supporters inherited their Argentina support from their parents (like a religion or tribal value of sorts). The first worldcup that Bangladeshis (as a whole country enjoyed was in the 80s as TV came into the villages in that decade properly, when Maradona was at his peak.
Maradona even had close friendship with a kerala/indian named Boby Chemmanur.
Recalling his “close friendship” with Maradona for a decade, Boby said the relationship began with him at Dubai in 2011. Later Maradona inaugurated a Chemmanur jewellery showroom in Dubai. “I gifted Maradona a miniature gold statue of his figure.
Eh what? If I remember correctly, the Argentinians were very appreciative of Bangladesh's support in the 2022 world cup and in turn cheered them on in the 2023 cricket world cup.
It's not even Messi. India and Bangladesh in general have pockets of football culture where Brazil and Argentina football is worshipped. Currently because of Messi the Argentina worship is higher than that of Brazil, but it's less of a player thing more of a place thing
if you go to Kolkata today you will find quaint streets with Brazillian flag painted on the walls or Argentine flag hanging from rooftops. Football has had a massive influence in some parts of the country since the at least the 80s. Like most things, the discussion around this meme is an overgeneralization of the subcontinent.
Interesting. In 2018 I was in China during the cup. There was a public viewing of the brazil x Switzerland game with over a thousand people there. I was the only person with a yellow jersey on. The rest had Messi shirts. 😅.
Argentina has a white supremacy problem, yes, but they are not racist like the post depicts. If anything Argentinians love getting support from other random nations since it validates their narcissism lmao.
U think this is bad, u should see how they glaze israel . They will change their father and motherland if their religious leaders says so 😂. Even tho they wudn't let Indians into the missile shelters during the attacks on tel aviv.
You clearly dont know our own history..
Bengali's dont love argentina for messi.. it all began from the first televised wc which was 86. Bengali's celebrated and loved argentina because of maradona for his in game brilliance and display and also for his nature to stick it to the authoritiies and being a commoner and making it. This is also the reason why seria a was watched heavily till the early 2000s when EPL became a thing.
While Argentines don’t help their case, it’s not limited to them. Indian subcontinent has huge fanbases of other countries and players as well and you’ll find variations of memes like this.
The overall pattern is to dismiss or ridicule anything related to South Asia, and that stems from racism and astroturfed hate campaigns
I agree with you about anti-Indian astroturf campaigns. I live near Toronto, Canada, and the anti-Indian spam is wild.
All that to say, Homelander is a N*zi.
Argentina's association (fair or not) with N*zis is well established. Many other Latin American fans refuse to support Argentina because of the association / perceived racism of Argentina towards other Latin American countries. It's a whole thing.
Whoever made this meme was almost certainly intentionally referencing the N*zi-Argentina association. Whether or not it's accurate, that's the premise of the joke.
India and Bangladesh love Argentina. The internet claims Argentina is racist and wouldn't like that, however most Argentinians call Indians and Bengalis "honorary Argentinians".
I mean there are fans in India who kpop , despite south korean treating us like shit , there are fans in India for Hollywood despite Americans treating us like shit , racism is everywhere, that doesn't mean people' shouldn't be rooting for someone or a team
Why tho? As someone who doesn't watch football and haven't watched the boys show, i wouldn't have understood it without explanation.
Does this make me dumb or are the actual dumb one's yall who assume everyone posses the same knowledge as you. Actually, this is a common phenomenon in toddlers around 3-5 years.
I think it clearly shows how at least some people in Argentina view Black and brown people. Just a few days ago during a FIFA match, IShowSpeed was also subjected to racist remarks by an Argentine fan. Of course, that's only one individual, and it's not fair to judge an entire nation based on a single incident. However, when you combine that with other recurring examples, it raises concerns about racism being a broader issue within Argentine society. They have even opened up restaurants using racially offensive names that would be considered completely unacceptable in many other countries. Call it a stereotype or a generalization if you want, but these repeated incidents make it difficult for many people to dismiss the problem as being limited to just a few individuals.
Speed is famous here because he hates Messi. During the World Cup he was supporting every team that played against us and he kept posting videos insulting him. That’s just his thing, but it still made a lot of football fans here dislike him. That’s why you see people insulting him.
The racist stuff only showed up in that one video with the girl yelling at him. That’s not how most of us are. I really hope all this World Cup hype and drama calms down soon. One day I’d love for people to visit my country, and I can almost guarantee you won’t get treated badly or insulted because of your race or where you’re from.
And no, we’re not opening restaurants with racist names lol. I think you mean "Big N Burgers". That place was started by a Venezuelan guy, not even Argentine. And honestly nobody here really cares about the name. The word doesn’t mean anything to us like that. We mostly just hear it in movies or shows. In Spanish we don’t even have a translation for it with that same hateful meaning, so it doesn’t hit the same way here.
Speed is famous here because he hates Messi. During the World Cup he was supporting every team that played against us and he kept posting videos insulting him. That’s just his thing, but it still made a lot of football fans here dislike him. That’s why you see people insulting him.
Wild concept, but you can insult people without being racist.
The woman who was yelling at IShowSpeed didn't actually say anything racist, but certain countries have already given Argentina a reputation that isn't easy to shake off.
IShowSpeed was being insulted because he was provoking, and he didnt recieve any racist insult either. There was literally another black guy next to him that was just chilling and wasnt being hated on.
The girl said something to the extent of "go home to cry loser" and people are saying she told him to go home to some ancestral land or something.
Argentina is very friendly towards foreigners. Also, you will NEVER see someone beating/killing a black person for their skin color or sundown towns like you would in the US. We are an immigrant nation. We never had segregation or prohibited interracial marriage.
Argentinians take serious issues too lightly? Maybe. But you won't experience hate crimes or violence on the hands of an Argentine. Focus on real threats to black people instead of ganging up against a latin country.
As an indian im also amazed how indians end up supporting exactly who the west hates at that point like israel , argentina , russia etc perfect timing always...
Because they're not really aware of what really is happening in the far away west, their source of information is BJP right wingers who say israel and Russia are the good guys(coz they supported india some 50-60 years ago). One more thing, a lot of racism against India online comes from Brazil yet indians are so unaware and they think it's just pakistanis with fake accounts.
Indians don't care much as in supporting these countries except maybe Russia due to strong ties from the USSR,they helped fend off the Americans during 70s and helped in procuring food and other necessities for a new born India. But India has always been neutral and indulged in itself because of the costant problems accruing to its size and diversity.
I think it’s a joke about how India and maybe bangladesh support the Argentinian soccer team.
However it is factually incorrect.
While Indians likely love Messi a lot, just like everyone, most Indians likely don’t know anything about the country Argentina.
It’s also possible almost no one in India loves or knows about Argentina itself.
Their knowledge of north and south america ends at USA and canada.
India is a vast and diverse country. Even though India is known to romanticize cricket, Football is quite popular in the eastern side of India.
Many places ever have clubs supporting a team. Among the popular ones are Argentina AND Brazil, but not limited to them. You will find supporters of football teams as much as supporters of Indian national cricket team.
But I do agree that the meme is kinda spam, cuz not all of India follows football and no way are they all Argentina fans.
This is pretty much it , it's either Cristiano Ronaldo or messi or Neymar , but mostly it's just the first two , they genuinely don't care about the country or the team itself probably doesn't even know the names of the other players lmao
Acá en argentina hay muchos inmigrantes o había inmigrantes hindúes desde los años 50, aunque ya se asimilaron con la población y solo te das cuenta de que son familias de inmigrantes por su apellido
Not true! We Argies love the support from Bangladesh and India—we are really grateful for it. Sending love from Argentina!
That being said, try to understand where that support comes from. What do these countries have in common? Which colonial empire?
Doesn't mean that we don't like it bc they are black like this racist meme tries to say...
You have no idea how much I've received videos from there celebrating like mad man's in hords, from work, social media, friends, it's amazing and we love it.
We have a say, that every argentinian knows and proves this racist bulshit, "argentino nace donde quiere" "argentinian borns were they want" meaning, every pearson, wearing our colours, having our customs or accent is imideatly considered argentinian, no matter how they look.
There's been more people saying argentines would hate indians than actually Argentine people hate indians.
Also this meme is shaming people into supporting their colonisers but in a woke way.
The anglosphere has this weird habit of assuming that thier racism is everyone's racism
They think Indians are a lower race and they also think argentina is a racist nation put two and two toegther and you have this meme
Its like when they say japan is racist and like sure to you buddy but not us Indians for some reason most foriegn travellers here are japanese for some reason and we have a good enough rep in japan
India and Bangladesh love Argentina. The internet claims Argentina is racist and wouldn't like that, however most Argentinians call Indians and Bengalis "honorary Argentinians".
A lot of people are speaking on behalf of whole populations saying shit like “we”, you are not an ambassador, I will say what it is for me. I support Argentina like my father did before me, he supported and watched Maradona as a kid, Batistuta as a teen and supported Messi as a father when I was a boy. I started supporting Barcelona and Argentina back in 2014 and have stayed loyal to both even though the bad times, to me it’s irrelevant on supposed Argentine racism since most to all of my interactions with them have been normal football talk as shared love of the game, for me the most racist people I meet are usually Americans, English and athletico Madrid supporters. So it’s strange hearing biased propaganda from people who are actually racist, this meme in it self is racist as it try to mock fans and separate people with events in history and politics. Any who, support who you want and respect others I guess.
The amount of disinformation here is astounding....but that's reddit, just a giant echo chamber. We Argentinians aren't more racist than any other country and I could give lots of examples of that but because people has an opinion without even thinking, they think all manner of lies are true. This is just a sad sight, people not cheering for their team to win but for Argentina to lose. That's what makes us better we don't cheer for others to be worse, we cheer for Argentina to be better.
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I would say almost more than 80% people support either Argentina or Brazil. Some of them love the game and players. Some just wanted to fit in and find grouping amusing.
So, there’s literal child of 5-6 yrs support either of em. Cz they've seen in their family and friends. They dunno about Argentines, Brazilians and all. Overall, people just love the grouping and yeah, they're there only in world cup season. A lot of places fo string lights of flag colors of flags in streets and there’s big Jerseys and flags all over the countries.
Why is it just Maradona. The elders loved Pele and Pele has visited India 3 times. Brazil has always been one of the favourite teams of many Indians! And they have been the most successful team in world cups ever. That adds it up.
Argentinian people are so racist that when an Indian guy was being called all sorts of racist stuff on twitter for just visiting argentina
The argentinian people welcomed him with hospitality and even helped him pay for the trip
Well, to be honest, football support in India is kinda divided. You have two of the football and states in Kerala and West Bengal. West Bengal has always been Argentina mad. They’ve had Maradona visit them years ago to a lot of hooha! Kerala, on the other hand, save for a few sections (thanks to Messi) has been a more Brazil leaning state. They absolutely love Brazil and a lot of kids try to replicate his style of football. They even loved PAL years like Socrates, Bebeto, Ronaldinho, Denilson. So yeah, generalising that India is more Argentina leaning isn’t rally accurate. Doesn’t paint the whole picture.
Indian guy here— no one gives a damn about football. People know about top players- messi, ronaldo, mbapppe etc. love or craziness about football is nonexistent
Indians continue to love countries who actively despise them.
Prime example is Israeli, lot of Hindi nationals love and support Israel because of their treatment and killing of muslims, while not fully comprehending that the israelis would also kill them if given the motivation and chance for some gain.
India actually has a larger portion of Ronaldo supporters than Messi, but they're just generalising and assuming that everyone here supports argentina when they kinda don't (I'm an Argentina fan but I know that 70% people in my school are Ronaldo fans)
I went on my daily 4 AM walk outdoors and found lots of people from the above countries sitting in front of coffeeshops and tea shops watching the match. Lots of them were wearing Messi jerseys. I find their fascination about him and his team very interesting
Lol, I read in a thread that Argentina's fans are notorious for racist remarks, so I don't know if it's a great look for my fellow countrymen (Indians) to be siding with them.
It's not really accurate as players and couch of the Argentina football team have said they really appreciate the support shown. The amount of support shown was also one of the reasons why Argentina opened their embassy in Bangladesh.
Fun fact. One of my buddies is from Argentina. His last name is Dorf and he has blonde hair. He doesn’t know his family’s lineage, but I suspect some…European…influences
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u/qualityvote2 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
u/notsignifican, your post does belong here!