Argentina and Brazil dominate the World Cup soccer conversation in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that transcends generations and geography.
Somehow, in a manner gushing down the generations by now, Bangladeshis have taken up fervent sides in the eternal soccer rivalry between —— Argentina and Brazil. They argue back and forth about it. They trade artful shade about it. They fly the two relevant foreign flags about it and decorate balconies over it and even paint the odd bridge about it.
All of this happens and heightens during World Cups in the world’s eighth-most-populous country, even as its giant capital, Dhaka, pulsates 9,503 miles from Rio de Janeiro and 10,420 miles from Buenos Aires. It happens in a country considerably madder for cricket. It happens even though it’s a smidgen shy of impossible to meet any Bangladeshis in South America . It happens although most Bangladeshi fans who adore either Argentina or Brazil will never meet an Argentine or a Brazilian.
By the 1990 World Cup, beamed in from Italy, Bangladeshis gathered almost ritually, the gatherings becoming deathless childhood memories.In the round of 16, Argentina and Brazil actually played one another . Chowdhury was 10. His home brimmed with “a huge feast,” he said, “like 50 of my father’s friends and associates” and one puzzled boy. “It was very hard for me to digest these two teams that are thousands of miles away, affecting my family like this,” he said. “I could see tears.
“I should not remember this from 32 years ago,” Chowdhury said, “but the memory’s so deep in my heart because you’re 10 years old and you see your uncles and aunts jumping up and down for these teams and neither of them is us, right?”Three rounds later, Argentina lost the final, 1-0, to Germany on a penalty you might even call disputed in the 85th minute, and another full household reacted, especially a certain 6-year-old.
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