GOAL!!!!!!!!!

A few weeks ago I went my first soccer game in Argentina. Here in Buenos Aires there are two main soccer clubs, River Plate (the team we saw) and Boca Juniors. The River Plate stadium is literally next door to where I go to class every day, and the Boca stadium is right by where my site for the project is. River is considered the rich team, fans are stereotyped as being rich and living in the rich area of town. However, they haven't been having the best season this year. Boca fans come from the poorer neighborhoods, but they are one of the best teams right now. We went on a weds. afternoon so it wasn't as crazy as they are on sundays, but I was still quite impressed with the number of people who came to the game. We had good seats, just about as close to the field as you can get, but all the true river fans sit in the upper deck under the jumbo tron. They were insane and so loud up there and throughout the stadium. Soccer isn't just a game it is truly a religion here (see pic of the vendor selling river plate stuff including rosary beads). We ended up being put on the jumbo tron three separate times which was really funny, the boys joked that it was because i was one of a few girls there and I had red hair. See the pic, above you can just make us out on the screen.