Sport

The Mexican people are known to adopt the game of soccer as their cultural heritage and they have great importance of this game. Psychologically these Mexican immigrants are deeply attached with soccer as they made it their cultural and sociological baggage towards the communities as Salinas, Watsonville and Gonzalez. It is being said by many people that soccer is a recent sport in the United States but Mexican people are practicing it since 30 years and they kept it in a very organized and well structured form. These immigrants brought their cultural practice of soccer from California up to many other communities. The transformation of this practice basically started from the Mexican people. The people of Salinas annually celebrate a soccer league to remind this practice.

The major objective of this annual league is not only to celebrate and have fun  enjoyment but they have a perspective of socializing the people attached and included to their specific ethnic group. It is very much amazing that the people of Salinas love to interact with their social agents such as their family, peers and relatives and they suppose and utilize this annual league of soccer as the only source of interaction with each other. In this way these people have given a very strong concept to the game of soccer and for them soccer is not only a game but it also has a traditional and cultural heritage that they are following since several years. This soccer league is conducted to strongly promote their culture. They utilize this game in the process of acculturation for them. From the year of 1970 soccer game got more and more popularity and fame in Salinas. These people manage and monitor their soccer community in a very well structured form and all issues are discussed and solved with ease and soft negotiations. The charisma for this game let many younger boys to develop their own professional teams to participate I nthe annual soccer league. Later on time by time soccer became an important activity in the Salinas. As far as symbolic interaction is concerned, soccer has become a symbol of culture for Mexican people from their homeland. It is quite much visible that the most soccer teams that are professional are sponsored by private business or agribusiness companies.  

The Mexican immigrants when moved to United States they created their own values, culture, norms and modified communities and also brought the tradition of soccer along with them due to the fact that the Mexican immigrants were basically farmers in occupation and are consistently contributing indirectly toward the development of this game. These great Mexican people have collectively formed their practices and behaviors towards soccer as they had in their homeland and completely adapted their related communities with a great influence of soccer in United States. Mexican people produced many professional players in the game of soccer and they gained fame too. This culture of Mexican people is now very well developed. They still organize several soccer leagues that are highly paid by the sponsors. These matches are properly broadcasted via satellite channels to the whole world of sports.

This is the only game that can even paralyze them in a way because they dont take soccer as a game but it worth a lot to them because of the cultural and sociological significance attached between them. 90 of the population is now a fan of soccer. Soccer players like Edoardo Isella and Melvin Brown made the Afro-Mexican community more and more famous in the world of soccer. In conclusion the Mexican people supported their national game as much as they can and they proved that if any game has given concept of sociological or cultural heritage then they know it very well how to live within it and how to respect it.