USA - Mexico

After a long morning working on a market project, a group Sports MBA classmates got together to enjoy one of the most passionate challenges in international soccer: Mexico vs. USA. With the room being split between Mexico fanáticos and US supporters, Diego’s normally quiet neighborhood experienced the true stadium-like atmosphere that the sport creates all around the world...

As the US took an early lead, tension rose on the green side of the room, completely silencing Hugo Jimenez (SMBA '10), our classmate from Mexico for nearly ten minutes. When Castro scored a wonder of a goal to bring La Tricolor back to the game, the mood immediately changed and the noise level went back up.

The end of the first half and the entire second half were pretty much dominated by Mexico and I recall hearing one of the American students say “I should just start studying for Marketing now” at least a handful of times - we had a midterm scheduled for the following day. Since I'm from Brazil, I had no favorite team in the game, it was a relief that Mexico only scored at the very end of the game. This meant that as the host of the game watch party, I only had to deal with upset fans for the last few minutes, and we were all able to enjoy a very decent soccer game.

-Diego Masiero (SMBA '10)