Last night was a very important football (soccer) game between Honduras and Mexico. I didnt watch a minute of it, but i knew how it was going at every stage!
If anything good was happening, everyone in town would start shouting gleefully and making lots of noise. Every time Honduras scored a goal the people would go crazy, fireworks would go off, people would run through the streets shouting ‘¡Gol! ¡Gol! ¡Gol!’.
After the match, when Honduras won, the whole town came out onto the streets. Cars drove around in a loop with people hanging out windows, sunroofs, climbing all over the cars, shouting, singing, waving flags, waving at the people in the houses, dancing, horns tooting non-stop. It was incredible. Incredible!
Why dont we celebrate without reservation in NZ like they do here?
I was talking with someone about the match this morning, she told me when things arent going well for Honduras, like there is a crisis, or petrol prices have just risen, or whatever to make people depressed, the government will often arrange a football match to take people’s minds off the sadness, so that even for just a day the people will be happy. Last nights game wasn’t one of those though, it was a qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup.
Click through to see a video of the celebrations.
Honduras beat Mexico 3 to 1 – Celebration in the streets from Robert Kern on Vimeo.