[TEXT : "Football is simpler, though...."]
OKAY... this Drawlentine took me forever but hear me out : I have literally 1000 headcanons about Tag and his father and his argentinian heritage.
Yall might remember I once made a rage-post about Extreme Football mentionning Tag having done horse-riding (and I still think IN that episode, a reference to Yam team would have been way better). But since, I have a read a lot more about Argentina and its history, and it's actually not that crazy that Tag gets to discover stuff like this once he is reunited with his father.
Based on the pictures of his father's villa in s3,
it's probable his family came from rural culture, the area resembles hispanic villa's from rural areas north of Argentina.
So EVEN the Extreme football design (with the *shudders* cursed bandana) actually makes sense if they imagined he had time to connect to his family's roots, who were probably gauchos (south american cow-boys).
Jeremy even teases him about it in the Brazil Worldcup comics :
[TEXT : IMG 01 : ""A Mi Casa" ! That's it, Tag's become a true gaucho that can't even speak french anymore !"
IMG 02 : *Tag* : "Seems like I'm not the only one losing my french ! "
*Jeremy* : "Laugh all you want mister "Gaucho" that speaks more spanish than french, but I'm counting on you to be my translator around here."]
So as another attempt to reconcile Tag's Extreme football design :
Why not, if he does actually get to live in Argentina with his dad for a while...
HOWEVER, I have read a lot more about Argentina's story, especially the dictatorship that kept Pablo imprisoned for 14 years, and it has given me a lot more headcanons for his story :
_ Pablo is a lawyer/politician/activist. He probably grew up in a city with the opportunity to study, and so I imagine the rural heritage to be more from Eva's side.
_ Traditional argentinian rural families in the 50s - 60s were pretty conservative (and religious). I like to think Eva's relationship with the sophisticated city boy that is Pablo Arias Echevarne was maybe a little scandalous for the Soler family. Especially since they don't share a last name, implying they actually didn't get married (*gasp*), perhaps because Eva's family would disapprove?
_ It is canon that Miss Adelaide helped smuggle Tag out of Argentina during the dictatorship, and that she was an old friend of the family to Pablo and Eva. I imagine there being some of the conservative values and cultural elements that echo in miss Adelaide's personality.
My interpretation then of Eva Soler :
I imagine that villa we see in s3 to be from Tag's mother's side of the family. ^^