Australian sports are jokes. When are we going to stop wasting all of our great athletes on AFL/NRL?
We just lost to fucking Greece 2-1 and could struggle to get to Russia 2018.
Doesn't this bother you?
Don't you want to succeed in a tournament people outside of Australia/New Zealand have heard of?
It's fucking pathetic Australia, We all know Soccer is going to be the only sport played in the entire world in 20 years, so why delay it?
We should start the next generation on soccer only, otherwise we're always going to be shit like this.
Go buy a season ticket for your local A-league team when they come up for sale, Support your local kiddy clubs, convince your kids, nephews, cousins, neighbours kids to start playing the wonderful game and maybe, just maybe, Australia will know that GLORIOUS feel of hosting a world cup and doing well in it.
agreed desu. you guys are so good at olympics, first world, great climate to raise athletes and you waste them on ridiculous boganball that the rest of the world has never heard of or laughs at. its a shame if they went into rugby union, cricket or football you could win it all
Lucas Collins
>mfw i've been on Sup Forums too long because i remember this and it was from years ago
Dominic Nelson
Bump
Andrew Garcia
You got two Aussies as relevant players in the NBA Finals and you care about your success in divegrass? Top kek.
David Ramirez
;)
Gabriel Powell
At least we aren't as bad the amerifats which play 3 irrelevant """sports"""
Owen Davis
Aren't way more kids playing soccer now?
I think concussions has everyone a little bit spooped.
Brandon Morris
Literally who cares about NBA
Nicholas Nelson
Have their ever been any british nba players?
Also basketball is fun as heck and the 2nd most popular sport in the world.
desu australia is too cucked by wanting to be like big brother America and thus having muh independent sports that don't need no international competition. People probably want to watch NBA more than soccer these days. With the massive amount of immigration in the last few years, you would think divegrass to be more popular but it's barely improving.
Christian Mitchell
Wasn't expecting Australia to best greece anyway desu
Alexander Clark
Why do Australians think meat pies are Australian?
Britain invented them, fuck off.
Eli Morgan
thats the point, "we" don't care. the wogs care and they just got beat by their motherland so now they want the big strong anglos to bail them out again
William Williams
and yet like 99% of the world population will not know any of them
now imagine if two Aussies would be in a Champions League final...
Joshua Hughes
>best beat
Thomas Reyes
imagine being australian
Blake Martin
>2nd most popular sport in the world
lel.
It comes behind cricket, field hockey, table tennis, regular tennis and golf.
Kevin Johnson
You can have them desu famz.
Take sausage rolls and flavoured milk too and hopefully all the crass bogan fucks will leave.
Isaiah Taylor
Harry Kewell was to be fair
Andrew Campbell
and back in 2005 he was the most popular australian athlete in the world
Lincoln Wright
>cricket, field hockey, table tennis
these are heavily skewed by 2 subhuman countries with high populations
>regular tennis and golf.
tennis maybe but golf? in what way?
Jaxson Garcia
Basketball is the third most popular sport, just because it's the most popular sport in china by a country mile
Henry Watson
>things invented by australians >goon sacks >utes >google maps >the black box >the bionic ear >the electric drill >spray on skin
>things invented by england >the meat pie >literally nothing else
Wyatt Collins
No one here really cared about him because soccer is kind of pretty gay. I do wish we were better at it for banter purposes though.
David Davis
not in Australia he sure as fuck was not
half the cricket team, half the rugby league team, Hewitt and a dozen guys in AFL were all better known and liked than Kewell
infact Kewell is widely hated in Australia. Timmy is fairly popular tho
Lucas Lopez
he may have not been the most popular athlete in Australia, but he was the world's most popular Australian athlete
Mason Russell
Brazil also has 2 players in the NBA finals and nobody cares, nobody knows them, but show the picture of Nerman to a Chinese or a Mali jihadist and they will recognize him. Basketball is utterly irrelevant compared to football, despite being a fun sport.
Gavin Taylor
who gives a fuck? what kind of insecure piece of shit do you have to be to care what Big Strong foreigners think about athletes who come from out country?
soccer is boring as fuck. Our sports (well not Rugby) are much better. And I can confidently say most Australians agree with me. I don't give a shit what you think
Jace Bailey
Basketball is considerably more popular in china than football is
Chase Mitchell
Ok, fair enough.
Yeah but mostly poor people like soccer, are poor people even really people?
Ryan Flores
Who is the Gary Ablett Jr of Australian sports?
Grayson Morales
>gaz is gonna end his career at the suns with no help at all his entire career
sad as fuck tbqh
Jordan Rivera
see nobody knows or gives a fuck about your rugby, cricket etc. athletes
the only way to global sports prominence is usually to be a football player (with the occasional exception of a basketball, golf, tennis, olympic etc. athlete making it)
you don't have to give a shit about what I say
I was just pointing out facts, facts that you can obviously choose not to care about
Sebastian Price
>Hewitt nice bait faggot
Grayson Campbell
I'd think that Lleyton Hewitt was more famous worldwide than Harry Kewell, just because the average football fan in Africa or Pakistan whatever doesn't know any players from outside their own club, especially not a bog standard one like Kewell Hewitt was world number one, remember
Cameron Cox
what happened to his hair? did he get flees?
the question is though, do you as an individual actually believe the global popularity of your sport is something that enhances the quality of the sport? if so I pity you
honestly I feel sorry for most Europeans, Africans, asians etc. You all seem to only be capable of playing 1(one) sport. Anglo countries all have atleast 3-4 major sports
Joseph Harris
>Gaz, Nicnat, hayne, slater, fyfe, some athletc cricket player all playing soccer
we'd win the worldc up every year
Eli Hill
>our team is shit so the sport is shit
Luke Smith
Football is a game for the masses, doesn't mean rich people don't like it, most teams in Europe are owned by billionaire football fans. People call it "noble briton sport" in an ironic way, because it was a game played by the british working class that ended up being spread to the whole world.
Robert Hughes
hewitt was obviously better known than kewell in australia, that's not even debatable
the more liked thing is, it largely depends on when - hewitt was a brat early but became loved later on whereas people were always fairly lukewarm about kewell
Dominic Moore
well, I haven't heard about him and tennis is quite well known here
but it's not entirely impossible
this is what you don't get
we DO have more sports we have pretty much a league for (almost) every sport there is
but football just smashed all the others sports with its popularity
i mean, are you suggesting people should start to artificially follow a sport, just in order to try to challenge football's popularity?
people will play and follow what they like and want and most of the world chooses football/"soccer"
Jason Nelson
He kind of has a point though, Soccer seems to dwarf everything in other countries. I know Germany does well at the olympics and has some f1 drivers. What sports do you guys excel at though?
Jaxon Perry
Even in Greece where we arguably are an international powerhouse in Basketball, no one really can compare it to football. Face it, it's just football being more popular.
Isaac Martinez
Britain is good at rugby, tennis, cricket, Olympics and football, and football is still more popular than the others put together
Ryan Scott
>well, I haven't heard about him and tennis is quite well known here was world #1 for like 2 years, maybe you're just too young
Hudson Bennett
Hewitt only started to become likeable AFTER he started commentating when he was knocked out of the aus opens. Kewell was much more liked by the australian public, all the way up to about 2010-11.
Austin Powell
well, we are the reigning handball european champions and multiple time world champions
we at least were quite decent at volleyball at some point of time and produced several world class tennis players
we also have a top NBA player (Dirk Nowitzki)
other sports exist here it's just that none of those can compare to the popularity of football, that's just how it is
I mean, even Nowitzki for example was first a football player and only switched to basketball after he realize that he doesn't have enough talent for a serious football career Basketball is only his 2nd sport
Joseph Jones
Golf and F1 as well
Nolan Carter
Hewitt was the 3rd best tennis player 2000-2010 behind fed and nadal m8
Camden Young
Those are good points.
I would have loved to see Dirk playing soccer.
Colton Murphy
>lleyton Hewitt >2010 M8
Justin Murphy
You forgot one of the GOATs (if not the GOAT) f1 drivers of all time and Vettel is still competing.
Parker Wright
He won a grand slam in 01 and 02, idk about that.
Benjamin Howard
nah, it happened earlier than that
it was when he just became less of a dick on court and his muh aussie battler fighting spirit became more exposed
kewell was never that well liked, the australian public generally dislike players who always seem to be struggling with mid-tier injuries that they can't play through
Leo Diaz
he means for the decade as a whole lid
Oliver Roberts
>i mean, are you suggesting people should start to artificially follow a sport, That's what you're doing in this thread with Australia and soccer.
it was for a charity, so obviously not a serious game, but anyway
wut?
I didn't make this thread
all I was saying is that IF, IF you care about having a globally known athlete, you will need to concentrate on football more
for your countryman (OP) that seems to be important, for you not so much, that's also okay
Christian Cooper
couldn't play on anything but clay
Isaac Davis
>invent retarded irrelevant sports >call them dope >continue to be irrelevant >kek
Luis Sanders
Yes, but not over that 10 year period. Its just like saying safin was also a better player than him. They probably were more talented, hewitt has one good shot, his lob, and everything else is just him fighting for the point.
Just look at his career record Hewitt: 616–262, 30 titles Kuerten: 358–195, 20 titles Safin: 422–267, 15 titles
Camden Collins
tell me some macedonian sports
Caleb Turner
>it's the autistic Amerilard with a german proxy again
Jaxon Roberts
we as a nation are best in hanball,wrestling and occasionally basketball... but if i was in charge i would sacrifice all of them to be average in football. meanwhile we are 140 in fifa rank
Parker Sanchez
history stealing
Daniel Evans
>Hyundai A-League lal
Jaxon Russell
I agree that I wish we were better at it but I just don't think this semen slurping sport is for me either way to be honest.
Ethan Brown
We Are The Caltex Socceroos
Justin Carter
nathan ablett
Jonathan Cox
>we beat them a few days earlier.
Sebastian Reyes
Funnily enough "best" works here too.
Rugby league is a poor man's sport in Straya too, isn't it?
David Thompson
yes, yes it is
Isaiah Young
>We just lost to fucking Greece 2-1 We are not that bad m8
Lincoln Rivera
Nathan Fyfe in the AFL tbqh
Ryan Morales
Kewell and Viduka were great for Leeds. Loved them both until Kewell turned into a super cunt.
Easton Sullivan
League = working/middle class whites in one half of the country. Whereas soccer is the sport of foreigners and slightly autistic middle class white kids.
Zachary Butler
fuck off, stavros.
Connor King
>Doesn't this bother you? Not really.
Leo Thompson
Uh what
I watched hewitt play at the aus open last year and the stadium was abso-fucking-lutely packed full of people screaming for him.
Isaiah Fisher
it was his last open
Lincoln Thomas
I can literally hear the wog accent as I read this
I call it 'wogesthesia'
fuck off stavros
Anthony Rivera
at least you have steven bradbury
Levi Taylor
This
Yes there have, e.g. Luol Deng, but literally nobody here gives a fuck
Basketball is an utterly irrelevant sport
Charles Rivera
why is he wearing a 70s brazilian NT jersey?
Oliver Robinson
Execute all Australians.
James Sanders
If Harry Kewell was a 70s disco smash written by Boney M he'd be Harry Cool
Tyler Parker
You used to be good at football though,there was Cahill while he was good,Kewell,Viduka,Emerton and the like
You almost beat Italy ffs
Get your shit together bogans
Kevin Davis
Is Tim Cahill related to Gary Cahill?
Brayden Bell
If Mark Viduka was a handheld scrubber used primarily for the purposes of exfoliation he'd be Mark Loofah
Asher Rivera
If Mile Jedinak was a small pill shaped breathmint sold in a cuboid plastic container he'd be Mile Tic Tac
Landon Smith
>boganball How's working the pubs in London going, Spiros?
Grayson Butler
REKT E K T
holy fucking shit
Chase Brooks
> mfw your C team wins Australia's finest and you send the whole continent to disgrace
Ye ye we get it your GK was rubbish and your 4th choise and "IF WE HAD SOMEONE ELSE WE WOULD WIN IZI". Reminds me the "my father is better than your father".
And btw, why is the whole "we just lost to fcken greece" considered an underachievement ?
We held the japs to 0-0 with 10 men 2 years ago. We won the african champions 2 years ago. We conceded less goals from Colombia than Brazil conceded from Germany 2 years ago. We gave a better match to Costa Rica than Uruguay Italy and England did 2 years ago.
One bad qualifying campaign and everyone forgets that we ve had a decent team , always in the top 15 Ranking ( I know its a joke - the fckin ranking is a joke but im too bored to check the times we lost under coach Santos on a 4 year period- which were less than 10 if i remember correctly.
Caleb Jones
It's all banter user.
Also pay denbts
Joshua Cruz
Don't do it.
Australia is one of a small handful of countries with its own distinct sporting culture. That's infinitely more valuable that being good at divegrass.