Last night I sat down in the bar with about six other expats from England,Italy and Scotland, talking about the WC and other stuff.
We eventually got around to the pet names of the teams like: England the three lions, Italy the Azurri etc.
Now one of the guys is from Southampton and a big fan of Kenwynne Jones and he said " Trinidad and Tobago the soccerwarriors".
At first I did not catch on to what he said but as the conversation went on it became apparent that he felt Soca was trini for soccer.
So I tried to explain that similar to reggae, soca is our music that evolved from calypso and soul, but unfortunately he did not really understand and said it would have been easier if we called ourselves the "calypso warriors". The Italians and the Scots were completely lost and eventually I gave up.
How do we change this perception before the world cup, is it necessary that we do ?
