Monday, March 28, 2005
Soccer? History? Insanity?
sore losers...
It was not quite as wide-spread as last year, but still, Mexican soccer fans chanted “Osama! Osama!” and attempted to burn a US flag before the US Mexico match.
Hey, pal—it’s just sports… But no:
The origins of this intense rivalry, explains fan Gerardo Gonzales, are historical - and he is not talking soccer history.
“Every schoolboy knows about 1848,” he says, settling in for a lazy afternoon of serious soccer talk at a local cantina. “When they robbed our territory,” referring to when Texas, California, and New Mexico were annexed to the US at the as part of a peace treaty ending the war between the two countries, “that was the beginning."
ThanQ! Michelle Malkin at the new Immigration Blog
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