How can football be a religion

In football or most sports, this isn't obviously the case. Many people that go to football games may have views about cosmology and the supernatural, but those views aren't usually given by the sport itself. They are independent of it. ... Almost every faith is almost as much a religion as football

Explanation:

countries such as spain, france and portugal colonized the region. although most of latin america was colonized by spain, the countries of portugal and france also had major influences on the region. due to war and disease, native populations were decimated.