Official Azzurri WC2010 Thread (18 Viewers)

[JCK]

Andries, I have all the right to support the Swedish NT, I have been living and working here for the past 6 years, I hold the nationality, I am married to a Swede, my friends and colleagues here are Swedes but I choose not to. Of course I watch their matches, of course sometimes I'd want them to win and others I'd want them to lose but in the end I don't give a rat's ass on what they do.

 

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[Seven]

Andries, I have all the right to support the Swedish NT, I have been living and working here for the past 6 years, I hold the nationality, I am married to a Swede, my friends and colleagues here are Swedes but I choose not to. Of course I watch their matches, of course sometimes I'd want them to win and others I'd want them to lose but in the end I don't give a rat's ass on what they do.

Exactly.

Andy doesn't offer you that choice. I do.

 

[Bjerknes]

If he doesn't recognize nationality, then he should be completely stoic when it comes to international football.

He shouldn't even watch the tournament if he feels that way.

Seven only accepts arguments of nationality when it fits his cause.

 

[JCK]

Exactly.

Andy doesn't offer you that choice. I do.

What choice?

I happen to hold another nationality to which I feel more comfortable supporting its national team.

 

[Seven]

He shouldn't even watch the tournament if he feels that way.

Seven only accepts arguments of nationality when it fits his cause.

What arguments of nationality? What the fuck are you blabbing about?

 

[Seven]

What choice?

I happen to hold another nationality to which I feel more comfortable supporting its national team.

Indeed. So you're Swedish, yet you don't want to support them.

Andy doesn't appreciate that kind of behaviour.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Again this idiotic argument.

Can you just let others support who the f#ck they want, yell WE and just drop it already?

 

[JCK]

Here's a question, if the national team is not a representation of the nation, not a collection of players holding that nationality and going to a tournament with the purpose of making their nation and folk proud so what are they then?

Why not pick a bunch of managers and they get to choose 23 players from all over the world just to create a squad and those squads compete against each other in the World Cup?

 

[Seven]

Here's a question, if the national team is not a representation of the nation, not a collection of players holding that nationality and going to a tournament with the purpose of making their nation and folk proud so what are they then?

Why not pick a bunch of managers and they get to choose 23 players from all over the world just to create a squad and those squads compete against each other in the World Cup?

Oh no, they're a representation of a nation alright.

I just think others could support them too. You can like a nation even if you're not part of that nation.

 

[JCK]

Oh no, they're a representation of a nation alright.

I just think others could support them too. You can like a nation even if you're not part of that nation.

You can like that nation but you cannot feel proud for the achievement of its national team, because they did what they did for their fellow citizens not for their fellow citizens of the country across the water.

 

[Seven]

You can like that nation but you cannot feel proud for the achievement of its national team, because they did what they did for their fellow citizens not for their fellow citizens of the country across the water.

What? I don't feel proud at all. I just like it when they win.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Again this idiotic argument.

Can you just let others support who the f#ck they want, yell WE and just drop it already?

Hush, child.

 

[JCK]

What? I don't feel proud at all. I just like it when they win.

Why?

 

[Dostoevsky]

Hush, child.

It's retarded. This was discussed ten times at least.

 

[Holdon]

Here we go again we this shit.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

And it will be discussed 10 more times after this.

 

[bianconero]

This all becoming rather petty, not to say pathetic.

And this Seven bating also.

Football isn't about logic, it's about passion: As is football.

There's no telling who one will fall in love with.

 

[Seven]

Why?

Mostly because so many people hate Italians.

 

[pitbull]

You can like that nation but you cannot feel proud for the achievement of its national team, because they did what they did for their fellow citizens not for their fellow citizens of the country across the water.

I highly doubt that players from Catalonia, Basque Country or Canary Islands wants to win the WC because of their love towards Spain and citizens. NT football has been business just like club football for ages now, I'm sure D.Beckham is as happy about crazy Chinese people in England shirts as about pudgy ginger-heads with English parentage in five generations.

What's support anyway? Buying jerseys and other stuff? Watching every game and yelling at the TV? Celebrating after victory? I can't see why someone from China could "support" Juventus and couldn't "support" Italy.

 

[CAPITANO]

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