I went to the movies the other day and right befor the previews an ad came on for some product. It consisted of a family and friends in a living room in what I would assume is Madrid(due to the fact that several people in the spot are wearing Madrid shirts) agruing during the Madrid vs. Barcelona match. One guy can even be heard calling Figo a traitor. I know it sounds wierd that a guy in Madrid would call Figo a traitor but you have to see it.
This is a Barcelona vs Real Madrid Match they're watching, and the one calling Figo a traitor is a Barcelona fan. In case you didn't know Figo left Barcelona to go to Real Madrid........ hence the "traitor" bit. What you also need to understand is that these two club represent the two regions in Spain that hate each other the most....... I don't mean like a normall rivalry, I mean they have faught each other in civil wars for hundreds of years and REALLY hate each other. Without going into the long history of it, suffice it to say that this is considered one of the two or three most hostile games played in the world.
Man, you really have an exaggerated vision of Spanish History. I must have missed a couple hundred civil wars with the Catalans while I studied. I'm such a bad student...
I think I know what it is all about. I was just wondering if anybody else had seen it. Why is it that everybody thinks that we Spaniards go around hating one another so much. I know that there is regionalism, but if it was as bad as some people on these boards make it out to be Spain would be a terrible place to live in.
I wonder how people comes to know these weird visions of history... btw I haven't seen the commercial, where did you see it?
The commercial is on ESPN (an English language sports network) in the USA. The tagline is (paraphrasing) "Sports, bringing people together". It's pretty cool that ESPN made a commercial in Spanish about two teams that most Americans have no clue about. Zizou who?
I saw it, before Star Trek! I thought it was great... except for the fact that it's an ESPN ad and ESPN doesn't put any goddamn Liga games on American TV! But yeah, that's what a ton of Spanish households look like on Madrid-Barcelona days (in different proportions of fans of each team naturally) but the divided family thing is very common. Oh and during the Civil War, did Madrid fall to the falangists before Barcelona? I can never remember, but either way it wasn't a Civil War between regions as most are.
Re: Re: Has anyone seen The 'product' is ESPN...they're hyping their network basically. I think the series is actually quite well done. And despite the various feelings between the Catalans and the Madrilenos, it is a GOOD sign that they can run a commercial revolving around Figo here in the US and that they know the audience will get it. I remember WC '94, man if you check out some of those old American play-by-play announcers its pathetic...they acted as if people didn't even know the objective of the game.
yup, the city was a battlefield, unlike Barcelona, which surrendered a year later if my memory doesn't fils me
Poor Figo, so also Madrilistas call him Traitor?. Figo is well known as Judas, blame it to Barca Fans. Anyway, Judas or not , Figo is one of my favorites footballer.
I guess ESPN (For Latin America) and ESPN 2 (For USA) are sharing their tv shows, one of those days I saw a spanish program (Fuera de Fuego if I remember well) on ESPN 2 and on ESPN Rugby, also La liga on ESPN 2. So¡?¡ There´s a tv commertial on ESPN with Ronaldo and Zidane, is so cool.
Speaking of commercials, has everyone seen the Nike soccer/streaker commercial? (fwiw, Its on the Nike site)...it is outstanding.