China is only interested in advanced math competitions, and India only cares about cricket.
Lucky bastards. I wish my country didn’t qualify so I would be spared all those stupid World Cup news and neighbor’s viewing parties.
India runs the ICC like FIFA runs the world cup.
They make bank off of corrupt practices and matchmaking fixes that ultimately harms the sport and de-incentivizes other countries to participate.
That doesn’t mean they lack talent, they just don’t care because they don’t want to spend the effort of building a team if it can’t make immediate money.
Pakistan also infamously never developed its football team due to high popularity of field hockey and cricket, and now they don’t bother because they can’t make easy money out of it.
Despite the low popularity, it is possible for them to form a quality team but no one wants to take the risk.
Does anyone give a shit about football in those countries though?
Soccer is huge in China
It’s something people cannot comprehend even on a personal level. I don’t care about the world cup for now. People will want to talk about the last game and cannot fathom why I am not watching a 110min game where nothing happens.
Chinese, Indians: They may not give a shit or watch some leagues from Europe if they are into football.
It’s obviously fine if you’re not interested, but it seems unnecessarily aggressive to say “a 110min game where nothing happens”. It also shows how little you know about the sport. Even if they go to overtime (which can only happen in direct elimination matches), that would be 90+30 = 120.
I agree with you, but just wanted to point out maybe they were calculating with the halftime break, so 45+15+45=105 and added some average extra time to get to their number
It’s obviously fine if you’re not interested, but it seems unnecessarily aggressive to say “a 110min game where nothing happens”. It also shows how little you know about the sport. Even if they go to overtime (which can only happen in direct elimination matches), that would be 90+30 = 120.
Yeh I don’t think they care much, or try really…
Oh sure, but let’s see Italy beat India in Cricket
I don’t think Italians could handle a week long game lol.
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’.
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.
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.
abhorrent prices for public transit to go see the games
We’re talking about qualifying for the games, not hosting them.
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.
