soccer night in Buenos Aires

Actually it isn't soccer night here, that's usually on Sundays, but there was a game tonight so I went. The game was Velez vs International (a brazilian team).

The stands were organized much like the European ones. At one end is the away team fans in their own section and on the opposing side are the hardcore standing fans. The hardcore fans have drums and several blue and white flags (the team colours). There was even a Quebec flag flying over there. We were seated in the middle... the normal home fan section. Separtating all fans from the field were barbed wire fences which I heard were discontinued in Europe. The last security measure is that the away team gets to leave the stadum first and get a 15 min head start. Not that there were actually any problems but the systems they have are interesting.

I had a super pancho which is ... guess... a hot dog. But it's popular in the hostel as I heard many people talk about going for them after having too much to drink. Anyway, it's not that exciting as the weiner was pastey and there weren't many toppings.

The people that went with me/with the tour group were from Australia, Chile, U.S., England and Canada.

The game itself was pretty exciting because the local team won 3-0. Exciting because it gets the fan stands all rocking. I have some pictures of them pulling a huge flag over themselves and a picture of some little 10 year old boys ripping paper so they could throw it in the air when their team won.