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How do China and India never qualify for the World Cup? (lemmy.today)
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[+] -32 points 4 months ago (38 children)

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?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [+] -27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    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?

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  • [–] -5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Many sports have a 'world cup'.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    But only the USA has a world cup with local teams

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I was about to post an erm ackshually but I checked my facts.

    An urban myth holds the name "World Series" came from a putative sponsorship by the New York World newspaper. The earliest such claim found by Snopes was made in 1991

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (21 children)

    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.

    Edit:

    It seems I kicked the FIFA hornets nest. It's funny seeing the amount of FIFA defenders rallying against me joking that they rig games for bribes...

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

    I don't even know what you're talking about

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    They are corrupt, but that has nothing to do with organizing the world cup so one specific team will win it.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It's a conspiracy theory I've heard a couple times that they pair up all the strong teams and the winners typically get a favorable start. I literally couldn't care less about the world Cup except to meme on it and FIFA though so what do I know. Maybe the corruption company that acts like the soccer Mafia is slightly less corrupt somehow.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    I didn't get the theory. The world cup groups are defined in a televised draw. Are you saying that the draw is fixed?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah the organization that gave trump a FIFA peace prize to bribe him after he was snubbed by the Nobel Prize debacle would play fair... I don't care whether they really do it or not (they probably do though) I just think memeing on them is funny

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    abhorrent prices for public transit to go see the games

    We're talking about qualifying for the games, not hosting them.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    You’re talking about a children’s game, mind you.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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