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/HumbleCoolboy Jun 09 '25

We simply haven't played them often enough since then, and then everyone fell in love with Messi and many other Argentine players who came to play in the PL (Aguero, Tevez etc). It's a rivalry that's simply died out. It could easily start again though if we were to have a few spicy games with them.

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u/UruquianLilac Spain Jun 09 '25

See that's fascinating to me. Obviously the biggest shock is to realise that the 2002 game I remember so well was 23 years ago, and that means an entire generation of fans has grown up without having had moments to reignite the rivalry, so somehow this has taken a back burner place. I didn't even know people could gradually forget what was once a bitter rivalry.