We all know sports are activities no longer related to only men. We already put those stereotypes of what women or men should be in our past. So, why do people still think that loving and supporting sports teams is a thing most commonly associated to men? We might not know the answer, but now it is not true. For sure.
Beatriz Albano is a senior Radio and Television student at Cásper Líbero – the place she always wanted to study. When she got in university, she knew she had to demonstrate her love for college in some way. That was how she joined Aguante Rojo, the group of students that hold and push forward Casperian teams.
“I have two most remarkable memories. One happened at my first JUCA (a championship that different colleges play against each other), when we (Cásper) won it for the first time. It was very intense, so I couldn’t help crying. The other was in 2014, when our handball team lost the final game, but the crowd didn’t stop singing. We were better than the winner’s bleachers. It’s how I use to say: when you sing at defeat, you understand that to love Cásper is the more important than winning”, says Bia.
When asked about what is the big deal of Aguante, she had no doubt in answering: “I think Aguante is the heart and lung of Cásper. I do think “aguantinos” have to be more rational at certain times, but what motivate us is our feelings and our emotions for our college”.
“I know that we are not very understood at college – some people don´t like us. But it is all worth it when I see the bleacher full of red and white colors or when Aguante push a team to make another score. I get the feeling we made an awesome job”. The love is so deep that Beatriz says it was the best thing that happened to her at Cásper: “Only who is part of it knows what I mean”.
This feeling is also shared with Larissa Sant’anna, a newer member of Pink Aguante (a nickname that represents the group of girls from Aguante’s supporters). “It was with it that I passed my most cheerful moments at Cásper. Singing the songs, supporting the teams and making friends: all of it made me create a major bond and love for the place I study”.
These are the statements of two of “aguantinas” that proof that love is bigger than gender impositions. Beatriz Albano, Larissa Sant’anna, Marília Kazmierczak, Mariana Tolosa, Georgia Andrade, Natália Antunes, Beatriz Petrone, Karine Avancini, Laura Garcia e Chames Oliveira (hey, that’s me!) can be 1/3 of the group, but they are as noisy are the men in it.