matbezlima
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I have always valued the Club World Cup very highly. It's a tournament to determine the WORLD champion after all! This has also always been the feeling of the average south-american football supporter. But perhaps we south-americans should stop giving the Club World Cup an importance that it doesn't deserve. After all, the european teams and european supporters don't really care about it and we should try to stop deluding ourselves into thinking "europeans only fake their indifference so they have an excuse if they lose it because they are so arrogant" or "let's destroy them so that they can respect south-american football and make them take the competition seriously" or "let's knock those fecking europeans out of their arrogant pedestal, let's teach them humbleness". Because I don't think that all europeans are intentionally arrogant when they dismiss the competition and because we shouldn't lower our self-esteem and have this underdog complex towards europeans that seems to be so culturally common here in South America, we should stop trying so desperately to seek respect and approval of europeans, we should stop humiliating ourselves.
Europeans don't care about the Club World Cup, so why should we south-americans hold the competition in such a high pedestal? We should start to stop treating it as the pinnacle of the season and give more value to Libertadores! Because if we win the Club World Cup, many people are always going to dismiss the title saying "europeans don't care" and they are sadly right. The Club World Cup doesn't taste like much when it's clear that the opponent doesn't care much about it, it's depressing. Just look at how Liverpool's players and supporters reacted to the title, barely any celebration in the dressing room from the players and no big celebration in the streets from Liverpool's supporters, some even defending that Liverpool played the Club World Cup with their team of youngsters like the League Cup. If Flamengo had won, there would be millions in the streets of Rio de Janeiro celebrating. Flamengo's 3-0 victory over Liverpool in 1981 is widely regarded as the greatest game in the club's history and the pinnacle of a fantastic team, by far the best in the club history with Zico as the main star. There is even an extremely popular and often sung song made by Flamengo's supporters celebrating that victory, but it seems that Liverpool's supporters, specially the youngest, don't care or even know about that game. When Barcelona played against Santos in 2011, it was hugely hyped here as THE game of the year, but not in Europe. Same thing for Flamengo vs. Liverpool past year.
It is really heartbreaking for me to see the indifference that europeans have towards the competition. Let's have some self-respect and pride towards ourselves and stop thinking that we have to try to earn respect from europeans. Nelson Rodrigues called all this inferiority complex "the underdog complex" and it permeates our desires to be militarly, economically and diplomatically to be as respected as the likes of EUA, top european countries, China, Russia and Japan are. Let's stop with this low self-steem.
Europeans don't care about the Club World Cup, so why should we south-americans hold the competition in such a high pedestal? We should start to stop treating it as the pinnacle of the season and give more value to Libertadores! Because if we win the Club World Cup, many people are always going to dismiss the title saying "europeans don't care" and they are sadly right. The Club World Cup doesn't taste like much when it's clear that the opponent doesn't care much about it, it's depressing. Just look at how Liverpool's players and supporters reacted to the title, barely any celebration in the dressing room from the players and no big celebration in the streets from Liverpool's supporters, some even defending that Liverpool played the Club World Cup with their team of youngsters like the League Cup. If Flamengo had won, there would be millions in the streets of Rio de Janeiro celebrating. Flamengo's 3-0 victory over Liverpool in 1981 is widely regarded as the greatest game in the club's history and the pinnacle of a fantastic team, by far the best in the club history with Zico as the main star. There is even an extremely popular and often sung song made by Flamengo's supporters celebrating that victory, but it seems that Liverpool's supporters, specially the youngest, don't care or even know about that game. When Barcelona played against Santos in 2011, it was hugely hyped here as THE game of the year, but not in Europe. Same thing for Flamengo vs. Liverpool past year.
It is really heartbreaking for me to see the indifference that europeans have towards the competition. Let's have some self-respect and pride towards ourselves and stop thinking that we have to try to earn respect from europeans. Nelson Rodrigues called all this inferiority complex "the underdog complex" and it permeates our desires to be militarly, economically and diplomatically to be as respected as the likes of EUA, top european countries, China, Russia and Japan are. Let's stop with this low self-steem.