heywoodu 13,499 Posted December 10, 2022 #4801 Share Posted December 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, Monzanator said: One Polish portal just run a story how Morocco represents the entire Arab world and yeah, I can see why Maghreb region is running behind Morocco even if Algeria was a French colony and Morocco was a Spanish colony etc. National identity and a separate ethnic identity to cheer for if the national one doesn't work, it does give one double chances to feel like winning, that's smart If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,569 Posted December 10, 2022 #4802 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Just now, heywoodu said: National identity and a separate ethnic identity to cheer for if the national one doesn't work, it does give one double chances to feel like winning, that's smart You might ask @hckošiceif he's cheering for Czech Republic? thiago_simoes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,128 Posted December 10, 2022 #4803 Share Posted December 10, 2022 1 minute ago, heywoodu said: National identity and a separate ethnic identity to cheer for if the national one doesn't work, it does give one double chances to feel like winning, that's smart I dunno, it is quite similar almost everywhere I guess. We also cheers like fools for Czechs (if we not play against obviously) and no one looks at it as something unordinary at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted December 10, 2022 #4804 Share Posted December 10, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, hckošice said: I dunno, it is quite similar almost everywhere I guess. We also cheers like fools for Czechs (if we not play against obviously) and no one looks at it as something unordinary at all But you were at least one country not that long ago. We might be in the same corner as Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and such, but I have no idea why I'd cheer for them other than because I like a certain player or team (but as usual, the flag behind the name isn't relevant for that) Anyway, in the end people should of course just cheer for whoever they want, free world and all Edited December 10, 2022 by heywoodu If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,128 Posted December 10, 2022 #4805 Share Posted December 10, 2022 2 minutes ago, heywoodu said: But you were at least one country not that long ago. yeah and we were a region of Hungary for almost a millenium and 82 % of inhabitants of Slovakia will most likely I assure you never cheer for a Hungarian in his entire life so that´s not really a point heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepharoah 2,264 Posted December 10, 2022 #4806 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Morocco deserves to be in quarterfinals and it wouldn't surprise me if they win today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManuCHIL 102 Posted December 10, 2022 #4807 Share Posted December 10, 2022 It won't be easy but I hope Morocco'll win over the most overrated team in the history, every single year XD thepharoah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepharoah 2,264 Posted December 10, 2022 #4808 Share Posted December 10, 2022 What a chance wasted by Ammalah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepharoah 2,264 Posted December 10, 2022 #4809 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Morocco only lacks a decent striker and they can easily be a world class team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiago_simoes 1,359 Posted December 10, 2022 #4810 Share Posted December 10, 2022 National identity is indeed extremely complex. We can see some Portuguese flags on balconies and windows in Rio de Janeiro, but if you ask most people how they feel about Portugal, most would say they'd rather want Portugal to lose. Same thing with Latin Americans when Spain was defeated; I saw lots of posts on social media mocking Spain coming from Latin Americans. Funny thing is that Portugal apparently has a large number of people who support Brazil, watch Brazilian soaps and TV series, but everything that comes from Portugal is virtually unknown in Brazil. And God forbid you mention to a Brazilian that Portuguese spoken in Portugal is the "correct" way to speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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