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There has been a big effort to promote the national team in the last 20 years, mostly done by Pepsi using artists, events and shows to shill their products while using the national team. Messi and Cristiano popularity probably helped a lot
>Do you people still play as much baseball as before?
For what I've seen, it is still a thing but not the same from what I remember from my childhood. There are a ton of baseball academies but I feel like they're filled with kids pushed by their parents to try make a living out of it, but you don't see as many kids playing baseball on the streets, football became more common.

I think football would replace baseball almost completely if our national league was at least competent, but our league is genuinely awful, while our baseball league is way better. I saw an analysis that shows that in general people are more interested in the football national team and tournaments like Champions League than the national baseball team or league, but the football league can't take advantage of that interest, our clubs are shit at bringing fans to the stadiums.

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