Brazil vs. Argentina. A true battle

Argentinian says: in Brazil there is only bad things: PCI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) of Football, crises in the Brazilian squad, Eurico Miranda ...
Brazilian answers: but there is no Argentines ....

If you are a Brazilian citizen, or know any, you must have already heard something like “I hate all Argentines” or “someone should throw a bomb in all that s**t (referring to Argentina) and blow it up.”

Maybe for a person who is not from Argentina or Brazil, it is difficult to understand how two countries can hate each other just because of a football brawl. But what the ‘gringos’ do not understand is that a match between Brazil and Argentina means much more than just a football match and sometimes rises feelings cultivated by years of history which are transferred to the game

To understand the rivalry between the two, it is easier to think about the antagonism between French and English, but in the case of Latin countries, in a declared way. Usually the Argentine people say not feel the same as the Brazilians feel for them, but any kind of discussion quickly begins for any reason when there is the presence of both at the same place, and the most contradictory is whom is the best player in world, Pele or Maradona?

The rivalry between the two countries began years ago, even in the colony times, when Brazil belonged to Portugal and Argentina to Spain. Then it developed when both became independent and fought to be the best country in South America and later during the 70s, both countries entered into discussion because the construction of Itaipu Hydroelectric, at the moment the largest hydroelectric in the world.

Of course, the arguments do not stop there, and continues with the Brazilians, especially those who frequented the beaches of southern Brazil, calling the Argentines of pigs, for not respecting our beaches and environment, and allegedly not driving conform the traffic laws. Also, like the Spanish people, we think the Argentines are extremely arrogant, and we hate when they think they are the Latinos more Europeans in the world.

In contradiction, the Argentines I met up till today say that apart from football, they cannot understand why they are mistreated by some Brazilians, or charged double price when they try to buy something in the neighbouring country. Maybe our ‘hermanos’ should talk a bit more with us before turning up their nose and try to understand that Bossa Nova is totally different from Tango.