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Originally Posted by sarcyspice
it is an interesting comparison you make there... with club football i think it is because we feel invested in it week in week out that we get so passionate about it, where as international are played once every couple of months, and you get passionate about it one summer in 2 or 4......
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I don't know... it's hard to just say that one is better than the other or that one makes people more passionate.
Like, Rangers and Celtic fans are some of the most diehard, stupid, all-out-all-the-time fans, so you'd assume they care about their clubs more than anything... but I don't know of a single Scottish person that didn't know absolutely nuts when they scored against Brazil in 1998. Celtic fans and Ranger fans cheering together... only international competition can make this happen.
Also... I've been lucky to be present at the stadium for both of Santos Laguna's championships in Mexico (sadly, I'll miss it this year if they win--tonight they play the first leg of the semifinals) and I can tell you that the emotion was incredible. I've never been so tense/excited/crazy/nervous during a space of 90 minutes. After the games, I couldn't sleep for those nights and kept watching replays, etc. and went out to the streets to celebrate with thousands of people.
BUT I know that if Mexico ever won the World Cup, I'd go 100000 times as crazy, and it would be like a freaking national holiday. The country wouldn't sleep for about a week, and the players would be national heroes.
I guess club competition is more personal, but international competition unites everyone under national pride. Fans that wanted to kill each other a few weeks ago come together as one during international competition. It's simply amazing, and I still don't think that there is a sporting event better than the World Cup.
We'll get a taste of it this summer with the European Cup, which, for those that don't follow soccer regularly, may actually be a higher-level tournament (in terms of quality--maybe not intensity) than the World Cup itself.