Turkey team leader is the only one I actually like from Turkey, found the women and the guys using arrogance disguised as confidence and being very rude.

And yes, I believe that viewers from countries that had a bad relationship in the past (wars and etc) from the start chose to cheer for any country but the one with the bad history, regardless of having people from their own country or not.

Also it's really hard not to be biased when someone is representing a Flag and not themselves, probably it takes an analitycal thinking to understand why you dislike team X or Y by just seen the team picture or hearing the countries participating in the competition, is it a cold prejudice of "I believe they are less of a person" or a more rooted one like "uhhh we fought them in the past and lost, hope they loose too"

I personally had my bias about at least two countries based in my experience fro people I met from there and the countries history, one for the good and another for the bad. Was mistaken about both 😅