River State vs. San Juan

One of our priorities in Buenos Aires was to go to a futbol game, and last Sunday we were fortunate enough to catch a River Plate home game. They were playing San Martín de San Juan, from the North West of Argentina. There were 35,000 in attendence, most in the third level of the stadium, and most wearing red and white. Just watching the fans was enough to entertain me; they sang and chanted, hung over the railings, waved flags, danced – it was spectacular. And the futbol game, of course, was entertaining with lots of close calls, men diving all over the place, dramatically recovering from trips and falls, and a score of 3 to 2 for River Plate. It started raining during the second part of the second half, and it just poured which made the crowd sing and chant louder (and take their shirts off, the men anyway). It was great, quite an experience. The only unfortunate thing was the rain was so heavy they did call it off ten mintues before the end, so there will be a rematch (maybe a good thing, it means another game in the season for River Plate fans, which I now consider myself a part of).