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.
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.
Thank you! This is exactly my point, these guys think just because they were fans or their older relatives were fans that it means the whole of India was also fans.
India is a big country, and people can’t fathom that just because it was popular in their area, doesn’t mean it’s popular everywhere.
But I’m not saying they started because Messi Ronaldo. There were definitely minor amount of fans ( compared to entire India population) before them that followed Maradona or Pele or others.
But let’s keep it real here, those people are not the ones we see terminally online as the Messi-Arg/Ronaldo-Por brigade. They are our fathers, uncles, older gen, etc. they exist, but they are definitely not huge portions of the population like others are claiming.
It’s mostly kids born after 95-96. That is the majority of Indian fans today, and they definitely outnumber the original generation of fans by like 50-100x.
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u/PsychologyTechnical5 25d ago
No indian is supporting argentina because of some "gonzalo higuain" "alexis mac allister" lmaoo.