Actually, they never did say "GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAL", which retrospectively is very disappointing.
This last weekend I ventured over to Santiago with a dangerously large group of gringos to watch Chile's most popular soccer team "Colo Colo" play the University of Chile (La "U", a professional team) in a heated quarter-finals match.
However it wasn't quite the cultural experience I had been expecting or better yet, had been prepared to expect. A Chilean friend of ours sent all the gringos a long and detailed e-mail about the history, dangers and do/don'ts of attending this match. But besides the riot police, crowding climbing fences and occasional flares, it seemed to be a "normal" athletic event.
The fans are extremely passionate, but when goals would happen they did not get mad but instead sung their favorite chant. Or when there was a penalty (for bad acting, jajaja), there would be a golfers' applause. But like my experience watching the same team in a bar, the chants can be surprisingly vulgar (so much so one would not want one's mother to hear such words). Something interesting about the less vulgar chants is that they come from protesters' during the dictatorship (or the other way around) and that Colo Colo is represents the Mapuche (Chilean indigenous folks), so for some there is a real connection to the team.
I leave you with some of these lively chants:
Un abrazo,
Katrina
