First of all, it was an interesting topic for me. I could see the american's point of view about the soccer. As it mentions in the essay, I also haven't seen playing soccer in mass media, unlike football or basketball, since I came here. I think they are more enthusiastic in basketball or the other sports, especially football, rather than soccer.Actually, in my country, Korea, soccer is one of the most famous and the most popular sports which people are enthusiastic about. Especially, the party of fans(& the cheer leaders) are the other new sight to see in the sports stadium.
In Korea, red color represents the soccer fans and it's also the color of the uniform, every fans wear red cloths and you can commonly see the red wave in the stadium. It's so fantastic ! For that reason, Korean soccer group of fans are called, "Red devil". (It similiar which we call "Roll tide"in here,AL). As you can see in the picture, whenever the soccer game comes, all people gather around in the middle of the city or the busiest quarters in the city, and ready to cheer the players with red clothes on it which is the symbol of Korea. Not only watching soccer but cheering with people also is another fun !
2 comments:
You are absolutely right, wachting soccer on TV is one thing, but being in the stadium an feel the emotions is totally different.
In Germany we also have our nationalcolors and wear tricots from our team while going to a game.
you are right. American does not care about the sports more than any other sports such as NFL or NBA you said. you know America also has Professinal league for soccer, National Soccer League(NSL), but the players can not get big salary such as any other American football players because the organization does not have money and any companies little support it.
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