sorry but i bet that both jokes comes from Argentina
that a soccer team loose in the world cup is nothing that hasn't happened before, especially for argentina that had the opportunity to compete in many of them, almost each one
there will be other world cups so no hurt feelings

you are seeing this from a very rigid perspective, in this moment some countries are preparing the next teams for 2014 world cup
to have a world cup winner you need 200 teams loosing, if you can't see it this way, you are not seeing the whole picture
about regional jokes, each country has one and that includes each country on america