If a young Muslim loves a disbeliever's team and there is a match between this disbeliever's team and the Muslim team, and this young man wants this...

The questioner : I say, may Allah reward you, that loving the victory of disbelievers over believers is a form of hypocrisy? Yes, now, does this young man support, for example, his national team or his team?

The Shaykh : What?

The questioner : He supports his national team or his team. So, if Allah decrees that the disbeliever's national team faces the Muslim national team, he wants the disbeliever's national team to win, yes, this happens so that it faces him.

The Shaykh : Do you mean football? What football???
The questioner: Is this major or minor hypocrisy, because now he loves the victory of the disbelievers?

The Shaykh : I do not consider these games to be anything at all, and I warn against participating in them and I warn against watching them, while some people are not satisfied with watching them; they stay up all night, and perhaps the congregational prayer is held while he is still sitting there.

The questioner : Shaykh, I gave the analogy, otherwise the issue is, I mean, inside...

The Shaykh : In any case, anyone who loves the victory of disbelievers over believers has something of hypocrisy in him.

The questioner : Is this a disbeliever?

The Shaykh : Generally.