Out of the different mainstream sports, soccer/football is one that’s pretty popular in the global south. There are lots of teams coming from Africa and South America, and it’s pretty popular in South Asia too
People do actually care about the World Cup in India, one of my friends’s parents are from India and they specifically mention that’s one of the things they remembered watching on TV in India growing up. It’s not a big political thing like India vs Pakistan cricket because Pakistan generally also doesn’t qualify for the World Cup lmao and people just vaguely root for Argentina Mexico or any other team that does well
I still don’t know what world cup you talk about but I believe you that one family in former England colony did care for their master’s events. Does it have a cultural meaning now for most of the Indians? I doubt that, which can explain the topic here. I mean caring is the first step to make good athletes and China does pretty well in the Olympics. India not so much but I think they’re going to get better in the future.
People can both like soccer and dislike the british? What are Indians banned from being doctor who or rail fans now? Cricket is like the most popular international sport in India and English is the closest thing to a truly univeral language in India (most people in south India don’t know Hindi). Turns out when the UK invades your country you get to keep the things they leave behind that you like lol
I would argue that the british are responsible for the modern idea of an Indian state in the first place by invading the entire thing and giving everyone there a common enemy by treating everyone living there so atrociously. India would probably be like 3 or 4 smaller countries if the british hadn’t forced them to unify for better or for worse
A corruption event held every 4 years where the team that bribes the corruption organization the most get the most favorable placement in the first pairing, and all other strong teams are paired together until they knock each other out.
You also need to pay fealty to the footy corruption organization like charging abhorrent prices for public transit to go see the games, charging insane prices for anything football related, and even crack down on businesses that sell footbal-related specials or sales without also greasing the palms of the footy corruption organization.
So you’re one of the enlightened geniuses that believe that Argentina’s World Cup was not legitimate, huh? You do realize that all of the teams have to be on board for that to happen, right? Even if they were, it would still be incredibly hard to coordinate (if not impossible). They won, and deserved it. Deal with it.
You don’t “pay bribes” to qualify, you win matches against other countries in your region. Plenty of corruption to find at FIFA but this accusation just doesn’t make sense.
Holy shit dude it’s a meme joking about how corrupt FIFA is and a conspiracy theory that they pair up strong teams to eliminate them for whoever paid the most, chill out.
⚽ Tell me where I hurt you by pointing to it on this soccer ball
Edit: do you also think professional wrestling is real? Because the leap in logic from “yeah the obviously corrupt organization that has a documented history of abuse and bribery wouldn’t accept large bribes to fix the games they run in secret” is on the same level as believing the punisher really threw mankind off hell in a cell 16 feet through an announcers table.
The majority of adult hobbies are also done by children. If you are too insecure to enjoy something because someone younger does it, that’s your problem. Some of most fun you can have is sharing a bit of wonder with the next generation.
Just to clarify for those not in the US or Europe(the question might also be the answer to topic): what’s the World Cup?
Africa:
You realize that pretending to not know what the most watched sporting event in the world is just makes you seem like an idiot, right?
Many sports have a ‘world cup’.
But only the USA has a world cup with local teams
all of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets
sadly
Out of the different mainstream sports, soccer/football is one that’s pretty popular in the global south. There are lots of teams coming from Africa and South America, and it’s pretty popular in South Asia too
FIFA corruption aside anyway
yeah, nobody in China knows about the world cup, and that’s my WeChat feed is full of posts related to the world cup…
People do actually care about the World Cup in India, one of my friends’s parents are from India and they specifically mention that’s one of the things they remembered watching on TV in India growing up. It’s not a big political thing like India vs Pakistan cricket because Pakistan generally also doesn’t qualify for the World Cup lmao and people just vaguely root for Argentina Mexico or any other team that does well
I still don’t know what world cup you talk about but I believe you that one family in former England colony did care for their master’s events. Does it have a cultural meaning now for most of the Indians? I doubt that, which can explain the topic here. I mean caring is the first step to make good athletes and China does pretty well in the Olympics. India not so much but I think they’re going to get better in the future.
People can both like soccer and dislike the british? What are Indians banned from being doctor who or rail fans now? Cricket is like the most popular international sport in India and English is the closest thing to a truly univeral language in India (most people in south India don’t know Hindi). Turns out when the UK invades your country you get to keep the things they leave behind that you like lol
I would argue that the british are responsible for the modern idea of an Indian state in the first place by invading the entire thing and giving everyone there a common enemy by treating everyone living there so atrociously. India would probably be like 3 or 4 smaller countries if the british hadn’t forced them to unify for better or for worse
Football/Soccer is the second most popular sport in India. It wasn’t that hard to find out. Quit being a prick.
A corruption event held every 4 years where the team that bribes the corruption organization the most get the most favorable placement in the first pairing, and all other strong teams are paired together until they knock each other out.
You also need to pay fealty to the footy corruption organization like charging abhorrent prices for public transit to go see the games, charging insane prices for anything football related, and even crack down on businesses that sell footbal-related specials or sales without also greasing the palms of the footy corruption organization.
So you’re one of the enlightened geniuses that believe that Argentina’s World Cup was not legitimate, huh? You do realize that all of the teams have to be on board for that to happen, right? Even if they were, it would still be incredibly hard to coordinate (if not impossible). They won, and deserved it. Deal with it.
We’re talking about qualifying for the games, not hosting them.
I guess they didn’t pay enough in bribes to the children’s game mafia then
Also we’re in the fucking memes community. FIFA is a gigantic meme. FIFA and corruption are like chocolate and peanut butter…
You don’t “pay bribes” to qualify, you win matches against other countries in your region. Plenty of corruption to find at FIFA but this accusation just doesn’t make sense.
Holy shit dude it’s a meme joking about how corrupt FIFA is and a conspiracy theory that they pair up strong teams to eliminate them for whoever paid the most, chill out.
⚽ Tell me where I hurt you by pointing to it on this soccer ball
Edit: do you also think professional wrestling is real? Because the leap in logic from “yeah the obviously corrupt organization that has a documented history of abuse and bribery wouldn’t accept large bribes to fix the games they run in secret” is on the same level as believing the punisher really threw mankind off hell in a cell 16 feet through an announcers table.
You’re talking about a children’s game, mind you.
There are children playing in the World Cup?
The majority of adult hobbies are also done by children. If you are too insecure to enjoy something because someone younger does it, that’s your problem. Some of most fun you can have is sharing a bit of wonder with the next generation.