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Football (soccer) is really popular in Latin America. When I was a kid, I did not play a lot with the rest of the kids since I was terrible at soccer and unless the variety of sports you have in the US, I could not do anything else.Not in Buenos Aires, it doesn't seem to be.
Interestingly, an Argentinian once told me that there was a point at which the country decided to broadcast the whole league on public television, which struck me as a strange decision when there were so many other problems to spend public money on, but on the other hand, not so much a strange decision, for the same reason. (Though they seem to have stopped doing that now.)
I'm really intrigued by Latin American football in general, though, since sometimes it seems to serve less as a tool of the powers that be, and more a fullblown battlefield. Some of the football related stories out of the Pinochet dictatorship, for example, are very strange: Playing under Pinochet: how Chile’s stars of the 1970s feared for their lives
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