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The publication also spoke to Maximiliano Heredia, 35, who commented: “We’ve always been criticised, we’re used to it. But we always give it our all.”
Some Argentinians have suggested that the style of mockery and provocation that they are used to simply doesn’t translate well.
Evelio Rubio, 47, a Venezuelan who has lived in Argentina for the past decade suggested it was impossible for people outside the country to understand how ‘football is experienced here’.
Labels that have ‘come from colonising countries that have not yet fully resolved the issue of racism’
Similarly sports journalist Ezequiel Fernandez Moores told AFP: “We can’t expect the world to understand us, our way of being, feeling, and expressing ourselves.”Though he did admit: “Sometimes we think we’re the centre of the universe, that God and our own navel are Argentine.”
Speaking to Al Jazeera about accusations of racism made against Argentinian society as a whole following the World Cup tournament, Sociologist Ivan Schuliaquer said that, while racism should never be denied, ‘in many cases, these labels come from colonising countries that have not yet fully resolved the issue of racism’.