Soccer is our religion?

Dr.krapula - El pibe de mi barrio

Since soccer has great influence over people’s social lives, it is no exaggeration to say that many people in Colombia and the rest of the world call soccer their “religion”. Like religion, soccer cannot escape the fanaticism of its supporters.
However the only religion for most is the worship of money, and that's not new at all.

Soccer by Eduardo Galeano

A manager of Liverpool soccer club once reflected: "Some people say soccer is a game of life and death but it's much more important than that". For the Nazis, too, soccer was a matter of state. A monument in the Ukraine commemorates the players of the 1942 Kiev Dynamo team. During the German occupation they committed the insane act of defeating Hitler's squad in the local stadium. Having been warned, "If you win, you die," they started out resigned to losing, trembling with fear and hunger, but in the end they could not resist the temptation of dignity. When the game was over all eleven were shot with their shirts on at the edge of a cliff.

Plese don't remember to me Andres Escobar, the famous soccer player who was shot and killed in Medellín, some people attribute the murder to the own goal that Escobar scored in the 1994 FIF World Cup against the United States.