May be it would help to know that Columbus name in Spanish is “Colón”, so ColOmbia.
(why not ColoNbia? I don’t know but I suspect it’s because in Spanish N never goes before B)
Indeed. Or P.
Old anecdote from school times and maybe a way to remember this fact: Teacher was explaining computers to class and wrote the word INPUT on the board. Somebody raises hand: “That is spelled wrong! It should be IMPUT, there is never an N before P”.
I grew up in Colombia (and have Colombian relatives) so it is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. The worse example is when I saw at a restaurant printed on the menu “Columbian coffee”. I mean even the packaging they get their coffee from says Colombian on it, how hard is it to get it right?
Outside of that digression, the Colombian team is often referred to, at least in Spanish speaking match commentary as “Los Cafeteros” (the coffee growers), which since I was watching the match on Telemundo (actually Peacock but they simulcast the Telemundo feed) I heard it more than once.
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If you hear someone cheering when Korea scores, that’s me.
Yeah, for sure it isn’t being used the way the song intended. It definitely is a “we’re gonna win it” mentality.
Yup, in their endless efforts to avoid repetition, commentators have a whole list of national nicknames to help them:
Colombia: Cafeteros.
Chile: Trasandinos (In Argentina, the Chileans have the annoying habit of referring to us as “Trasandinos” when we are OBVIOUSLY cisandinos!)
Paraguay: Guaranies (Native American tribe whose language is currently one of Paraguay’s national languages)
Uruguay: Charruas (Native American tribe whose language (I think) is no longer even known)
Bolivia: “Del Altiplano” (From the Highlands)
Brazil: Carioca.
Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela don’t seem to have nicknames, or at least I don’t remember them.
The second game for teams in Group B will be played today. The first round produced two draws, so a win by anybody will virtually assure them of advancement. Switzerland (over Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Canada (over Qatar) are both favored, according to the oddsmakers.
Personally, I want to see two more draws today, just for the ensuing chaos.
Every team has ‘we’re gonna win’ chants! It seems only England gets criticised for it.
It’s the only team whose “we are gonna win” chants Americans can understand.
It’s simply ‘USA USA’ in a different dialect
And that’s only for FIFA purposes - if you qualify as a citizen of a country by any other means, you’re in as well. The US’s Folarin Balogun, with parents and grandparents from Nigeria but who himself grew up in England, can claim US citizenship only (?!?) because he had been born here - his mother had come to the States for a conference and was not allowed to fly home due to her pregnancy, so he was born here and flew home a couple months later.
So 1) any claim of citizenship makes playing for a country valid, over and above what FIFA provides for, and 2) birthright citizenship has meant two goals for the U.S. in this tournament (so far), here’s hoping the Supreme Court references this when it (hopefully) slams the Trump administration down later this month.
South Africa just let a goal in so easily, it was embarrassing.
They look like chumps out there.
I won’t go into further into this, but it is not that he can claim that, but that US will claim that, in particular when it comes to taxes which they expect you to pay due to your birth in the country regardless of where you are domiciled. This has caused problems for people who did not even realize they had been born in the US and later found were subject to tax regulations and could not renounce their citizenship easily never having been issued a Social Security Number.
Anyway, I think he would be disqualified because he might have the effrontery of calling the sport Football instead of soccer 
On with the beautiful sport!
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One reason I want England to win is out of morbid curiosity to see what they’d sing once their song becomes obsolete.
If that ever happens, the Lightning Seeds will have to write new lyrics and record a new version. The band is still around.
(btw., IMHO and that of most German football fans, “Three Lions” is the best football song ever, even though they made fun of us in the video, showing 11 “Kuntz” with mullets 
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