Isaac From Venezuela: Como by the Lake and the Long Way to Sinigaglia

Como is learning what it feels like to be watched.

Not in the abstract way clubs talk about global reach. In the tangible way. A different accent at the bar on matchday. A new flag wrapped around shoulders in the queue. A visitor taking the long route to the Sinigaglia just to make the lake appear at the right moment. The stadium has always been a postcard. Now it is becoming a destination.

Isaac came from Venezuela to see it for himself.

He did not grow up with Como. The connection arrived through family. A cousin moved to the area for work more than a year ago and started telling him about a team that plays right by the lake. That detail did what good details do. It lodged.

“She once told me about a football team that played right by the lake and I immediately made the connection,” Isaac says. “I told her that I’d love to visit the stadium someday.”

At first it was a romantic idea. A future trip. A stadium in a place you already want to see. Then Como’s promotion and the sense of a club on the rise turned the curiosity into a habit. Isaac began following from a distance the way fans do now with highlights clips and line ups and a growing understanding of how a season feels.

“As a football fan I found it to be one of the most fascinating places to see and the club’s growth after their promotion made me start following them more closely” he says. “This year I decided to spend my vacation in Italy and fulfill that dream by attending the match against Hellas Verona.”

This is part of Como’s new reality. People are not only discovering a team. They are discovering a matchday experience. A city with its own rhythm. A stadium that does not look like modern football is supposed to look. A ground where the walk in can feel like you are heading to the water and the football happens to be waiting.

Isaac’s story also says something about how Serie A travels.

“In Venezuela we follow Italian football quite closely,” he says. “There are fan communities for the most well known clubs and others have great potential to grow in Venezuela and across South America. Serie A matches are always on TV.”

Venezuela is a country where baseball still dominates the sporting conversation. But Isaac describes football as the sport with the widest pull and the easiest passport.

“Even though baseball is our main sport, many people prefer football because of its global influence,” he says.

So where does Como fit in a market that has traditionally followed the giants.

Isaac sees it as a club that is easier to fall for now because it feels alive and because the project has momentum.

“I think Venezuelans see Como as a team that has grown rapidly and is exciting to watch” he says “especially thanks to players like Nico Paz and Morata.”

Then comes the part every visitor remembers. The first sense of noise. The way a small ground can feel loud because the sound has nowhere to go but back at you. The way the crowd carries itself even before the turnstiles.

Isaac went to the Sinigaglia in the rain and discovered that weather does not dilute belief.

“It was an unforgettable experience,” he says. “I was surprised by the energy of the fans and how even in the rain they never stopped cheering with that unique echo of theirs.”

He noticed the city changing colour as the day moved closer to kickoff. Not through spectacle. Through repetition. Stickers. Shirts. Scarves. A badge on a jacket. A family walking with purpose.

“You could feel the support on the train ride to the match” he says. “The team’s logo was everywhere hours before kickoff.”

For someone arriving from the other side of the world those small cues matter. They make you feel like you are not trespassing on a private ritual. They invite you in.

“It was beautiful to see families attending together and cheering side by side,” Isaac says. “I truly enjoyed every moment, especially the goals that sealed the team’s victory.”

That is the other lesson Como is teaching visitors. The scale may look modest but the feeling is not.

Isaac talks about the stadium as a kind of football rarity. Not because it is old. Because it sits in a landscape that turns a match into a memory even before the ball is kicked.

“I would absolutely recommend this experience to other Venezuelan and South American fans,” he says. “It’s not just about the thrill of football, the stadium is in one of the most naturally magical places I’ve ever seen.”

He frames it as an experience that is hard to replicate anywhere else. Emotion and scenery in the same frame.

“There aren’t many sports experiences that combine that emotional and scenic side and that’s what makes Como special” he says.

And when he tries to describe the Curva to someone who has not felt it he reaches for the simplest contrast. Small on paper. Huge in person.

“I’d tell them to get ready to see how a fan base that may seem small can feel boundless in spirit and passion.”

Como has always belonged to Como. That is the point of a club like this. But now it is also beginning to belong to people who arrive with a suitcase and a dream and the name of a stadium they once heard described as being right by the lake.

Isaac came from Venezuela because a cousin told him a story. He left with one of his own.

And Como keeps collecting them.