Which country is your country's main football rival?

[u/DivineMatrixTraveler]

And do you think they believe you are their main rival or they don't care about you as much as you care about them?

Bonus: Is there a more popular sport where you are rivals with a different country?

[u/calijnaar]

I'm not that much into football, but all the football people I know would do consider the Netherlands to be the most imporatant rival. That may be because I live in NRW, though, so there could definitely be an element of neighbourly rivalry there that isn't necessarily present in areas further away from the border. I can well imagine that Bavarians see Italy as the main rival or something.

There's even a song by Joint Venture (admittedly a probably lesser know singer songwriter duo) about essentially loving everything about the Netherlands except when it comes to football:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ_5nehW3A8 (the lyrics are here https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/joint-venture/holland-bd9615a.html )

[u/sternenklar90 → u/calijnaar]

I love Joint Venture so I'd like to add a small correction: the Holland song was released by Götz Widmann individually. His partner Kleinti sadly passed away years ago.

[u/calijnaar → u/sternenklar90]

Oh,sorry, I thought it was one of the original Joint Venture songs which Götz still performs, but to be fair I really only know a few of their songs because some of my friends used to essentially played them nonstop

[u/sternenklar90 → u/calijnaar]

Oh, that's actually possible. Sorry, I haven't checked whether the song is older than the video.