This is more for the users who come from a nation that is not a hot bed for football, such as Canada.
I recently went to the friendly between Canada and Ecuador, in which we pulled off a draw against a much higher ranked and probably stronger squad. It was my first taste of live professional and international football. Sadly though, football, or soccer as we call it, is not the most popular sport in the country (even though more people play it than any other) and the stadium was far from full. To make the lack of supporters even worse, the majority of the fans in the stands wore Ecuadorian yellow. The red and white were confined to three sections at the one end of the stadium where we did our best to drown out all other noise in the stadium.
Now a lot of former and current Canadian players have come out and expressed how disheartening it is for them to come out into their home stadium and see more of the opponent's fans than their own. I have also heard one say that they preferred playing away from home cause than they knew they would get no support and it was more understandable.
Now to my point. I am wondering how all you other guys who come from nations where football isn't as huge as say in England support your national team and what can be done to improve these situations?
This has been a popular topic of discussion since attending the match I mentioned on my blog (Here we call it Soccer), but now I want to hear other opinions on this topic.
I recently went to the friendly between Canada and Ecuador, in which we pulled off a draw against a much higher ranked and probably stronger squad. It was my first taste of live professional and international football. Sadly though, football, or soccer as we call it, is not the most popular sport in the country (even though more people play it than any other) and the stadium was far from full. To make the lack of supporters even worse, the majority of the fans in the stands wore Ecuadorian yellow. The red and white were confined to three sections at the one end of the stadium where we did our best to drown out all other noise in the stadium.
Now a lot of former and current Canadian players have come out and expressed how disheartening it is for them to come out into their home stadium and see more of the opponent's fans than their own. I have also heard one say that they preferred playing away from home cause than they knew they would get no support and it was more understandable.
Now to my point. I am wondering how all you other guys who come from nations where football isn't as huge as say in England support your national team and what can be done to improve these situations?
This has been a popular topic of discussion since attending the match I mentioned on my blog (Here we call it Soccer), but now I want to hear other opinions on this topic.