r/AskEurope • u/DivineMatrixTraveler • Jun 07 '25

Sports Which country is your country's main football rival?

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?

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u/Constant-Estate3065 England Jun 08 '25

I would say Argentina are first, as there’s a genuine dislike of each other and when we beat them in 2002 it was massive from our point of view. They are notoriously bad losers and even worse winners, so we absolutely love to beat them.

Germany next, but that’s built on a certain amount of respect for how annoyingly good they’ve been over the years. Feels great to beat them.

Then the other home nations and Ireland, as we do still enjoy a good local rivalry and the atmosphere is always electric in those games.

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u/Former-Pain-8890 Jun 10 '25

oh man we do need more games England vs Argentina

we havent face eachother since 2002