like this is an actual thing that happens every world cup, like not even just a school thing everyone gets the brazilian games as a holiday, because people will call in sick or just not go to their work to see the yellow boys play the ball game
like this is an actual thing that happens every world cup, like not even just a school thing everyone gets the brazilian games as a holiday, because people will call in sick or just not go to their work to see the yellow boys play the ball game
I can't imagine how obnoxious it must be to live in Brazil etc. if you don't give a shit about soccer
like 99% is pretty normal, if a brazilian team won a big tournament there might be a big impromptu party in their city, during the world cup it is a bit harder because people will talk more about footbal, but like when i was a teen i wasn't big into soccer and the fun thing about the world cup is that you get a free holiday every game and you don't need to watch it i used to play games and stay up late and have a cozy long sleep during the games when they were too early, and you get to go drink with your pals and barely pay attention to the game if you want it is just a really fun time, everyone is on a good mood as long brazil is doing fine on the world cup, there is of course a bias, i naturally trained to love the ball game, it is the culture, but it is one of the funniest times to be around in brazil, i once watched a game with a whole samba school drums division, it is the second secret carnival
Edit: just wanna add one of the weird events that sometimes happens during world cup matches, if you are on a deeply populated area like generally in big cities, and brazil is playing you might be able to hear everyone losing their mind like during the one in brazil, i heard like a whole street of 10+ floor buildings ROAR in euphoria, but people were really hyped for that one, like you could absolutelly know the result of a game simply by listening to people in a window but the level of this really varies depending on place and also how excited people are for the team but it is a bit obnoxious if you are not aware of it
So not all that different to our football/baseball/basketball shit then huh
yeah it just looks more intense because instead of some people really like the american football and other people being into the basketball, everyone is just a massive group of footbal fans (although like brazilians do enjoy sports in general it is just that footbal and the national team in particular is a part of the brazilian identity, like even to people who are not big football fans on a normal time might become hardcore supporters, and it is also why the effect of the 7x1 defeat to germany at home was actual trauma to the brazilian collective mind, that was our 9/11) like this was the reception flamengo got from getting one of their libertadores's cup wins and this seems pretty on par with a superbowl win reception for example
i guess if you hate it when other people are happy or excited about something then yeah, it would be pretty annoying
More that they get annoyed with you for not being excited