Roma’s eternal captain, Francesco Totti—the same man who turned down Real Madrid to spend his entire career at his hometown club—dropped a line that goes straight to the heart of the matter.
“If you support the big teams instead of the team from your city or region, you don’t like football. You like winning”, said the Italian football legend.
He says it with the authority of someone who made Roma his banner when he could have chosen bigger trophy cabinets.
And the phrase hits differently in Argentina, where entire towns and provinces have their own club, but most people are still Boca or River fans.
Is being a fan of a big club loving football, or simply choosing the easiest path to winning?