The darkest years in political scene of Latin America, football fanatisism was thriving. People would be starving, but they would rebel only when their favourit

The darkest years in political scene of Latin America, football fanatisism was thriving. People would be starving, but they would rebel only when their favourite team would lose a game. Not when they were starving. A similar decadance was taking place in Europe in the 70s and 80s. It so happens that soccer fanaticism grew wherever there was incometent to solve problems and heavily corrupted government(s). Yes football is still being used as tool, even in Europe to distract people that should know better. Combine that with crappy education et voila! I kindly remind how one of the filthiest and most violent (UK) football scene was cleaned up when true political will was present. And you can see some other European countries (Portugal, Greece) where there only 1-2 teams good enough to be champions, who happen to have massive following, and said following is usually lower class.