Italy v Uruguay (Group D) Tuesday 24th June 2014

[Treacle Toes]

 

[butchersapron]

Has anyone came across a non-hysterical or non-conspiratorial reaction from a Uruguayan?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Has anyone came across a non-hysterical or non-conspiratorial reaction from a Uruguayan?

Yes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...uarez-for-his-behaviour-at-the-World-Cup.html

 

[butchersapron]

Ta. Anyone got any others?

 

[pocketscience]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/26/luis-suarez-uruguay-winning

 

[butchersapron]

Don't think it counts. That's a sort of back handed defence, based on ridiculous national stereotyping in the same vein as the conspiracy stuff.

 

[agricola]

Has anyone came across a non-hysterical or non-conspiratorial reaction from a Uruguayan?

Yes:

“We feel that this is an assault on the poor because this gang will never forgive him because he never went to university, he isn’t educated, he grew up on the field, and he is a natural rebel and expresses his anger naturally,” said the president.

Maradona added in agreement: “In this World Cup there have been much greater incidents than Suárez’s on Chiellini.”

Mujica responded: “There’s no doubt about that, because we have seen all the games and this is a different punishment. This is the most indignant punishment.

“Here they add everything together but the boy really shouldn’t be blamed for his reaction. It’s a match and these things happen and then there’s no need to look into every incident, because if we did that in every game we’d be playing five-a-side.”

Not hysterical, and not that conspiratorial. It is however complete bollocks.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I wonder how may footballers at the whole World Cup went to University. Probably most of the US team and next to no-one else.

 

[Badgers]

I wonder how may footballers at the whole World Cup went to University. Probably most of the US team and next to no-one else.

 

[pocketscience]

Don't think it counts. That's a sort of back handed defence, based on ridiculous national stereotyping in the same vein as the conspiracy stuff.

It's weirdly written but I think he's just trying to offer an explanation of why the conspiracy stuff is so prevalent in Uraguay (and thus become a national stereotype - at least in football circles)

So to the second explanation and another local speciality: the conspiracy theory.

If there is a myth that impregnates Uruguayan football, it is the obsession that there is always a plot against us in the politics of the game. That we are not an important economic market, that we usually bring down the big names in events, and therefore represent bad business. This idea will only gain currency after the heavy and unprecedented sanction against Suárez, especially when, should Uruguay get past Colombia, a quarter-final against Brazil is the likely outcome.

Judging by the lack of any rational reactions other than Ghiggia's, maybe the journo has a point and, the stereotype is in-fact a very real national characteristic.
But whatever, if the artivcle don't fit your requirements then so be it.

eta: an interesting comparison in the comments section about Beckham's sending off against Argentina in 1998 and how the nation hang him out to dry for his actions. Two nations, two different ways of dealing with it.

 

[rekil]

Has anyone came across a non-hysterical or non-conspiratorial reaction from a Uruguayan?

“He’s a f***ing animal,” one Uruguay fan said of Luis Suarez as he stood by the Copacabana.

“He needs help,” he added, tapping the side of his head to indicate a special kind of craziness.

I wasn’t going to disagree with him. The fan in question, sporting a sleeveless t-shirt to show his full sleeve tattoos, was built like a truck, as wide as he was tall. Still, he refused to pose for a picture or give his name for fear of being abused by his countrymen.

https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blog...ings-uruguay-fans-suarez-ahead-201305785.html

 

[butchersapron]

These people have clearly been driven crazy by the english and italian media and fifa and the honourable george bush.

 

[sleaterkinney]

He ran into my teeth!

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

It's all just a cultural misunderstanding

 

[big eejit]

He ran into my teeth!

What part of 'shut the fuck up and stop making a tit of yourself' does Suarez not understand?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/28/luis-suarez-bite-balance-hit-face-chiellini

 

[big eejit]

Suarez is Shaggy:

She even caught me on camera (It wasn't me),
She saw the marks on my shoulder (It wasn't me).

 

[sleaterkinney]

It's not just Uruguayan strikers who are at it!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/wo...nd-fan-ear-bitten-World-Cup-match-Brazil.html

If you search around you can get the footage, but it's gross.

 

[Lord Camomile]

"It's a breach of human rights that a player cannot go into a stadium where there are 80,000 people or into a hotel with his team-mates, that he cannot work for four months," the defender said.

"He has committed a crime, but this (ban) is barbarity. Not even a criminal would receive this penalty."

Confined to a cell for 23 of 24 hours, but even prison authorities would let you go into a stadium where there are 80,000 people or into a hotel with your team-mates

#barabaricfifaout