UK invents soccer

>UK invents soccer
>none of the countries they settled are good at it or play it that much

Why didn't English soccer culture spread to the countries most like them?

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we arent even good at it, cant expect union jack cucks to be

soccer didn't get big until the 1880s
then it was the first widely participated organized sport for working class people

rich brits were more likely to bring cricket, rugby or equestrian sports to the colonies

gaelic football is the only commoner sport that they brought over that people like

The good people of the colonies were hard, fearless settlers. They took rugby with them, not some fruity kickaround kiddy's game. In North America it mutated into football. In Australia, it mutated into Aussie rules, and in NZ, we stuck with rugby union and our dicks mutated into horrific thick snakes.

I wonder why Rugby and variations (i.e Handegg, Australian Handegg, Gaellic Handegg etc) took off before Football in the colonies.

Didn't mostly working class people settle the Anglo colonies?

before the 1880's

football came out of rugby
it used to be a sport for college students (rich kids) who had big fields on campuses to play on, they ended up getting stadiums and the biggest teams were colleges until the 1930s

they were poor though, rich people had no problem setting up a cricket or rugby club and having their own field and clubhouse

this whole brits invented soccer meme is getting pretty stale. all they invented was the rules, not the actual sport

the chinese were playing soccer while the brits were busy being raped by vikings

Yeah I feel like in all of our countries, the soccer culture really developed from the non-Anglo immigrants than it did amongst the original Anglo settlers

Sad that it didn't come the country that spawned us

and native tribes were playing with the heads of their enemies as balls long ago too

because we're big strong Anglos, not small pathetic spics.

Football players were too big of pussies to colonize anything. The colonizers all played rugby and cricket

If we depended on chinese sport promoting the world would never know Football.

Doesn't that still happen in Mexico?

early football was murderball, not sissy at all

Thank God we don't play rugby or cricket here

We invented our own sports like alphas

Yeah even without the British soccer would've eventually been invented. Codifying rules isn't that great big of a development

Both Handegg and Luckswing are just variations of britshart sports, the only genuine american sport is Basketball.

modifying existing sports isn't much of an invention
harvard, brown and mcgill are the schools that saved schools from following soccer instead of rugby

it is though, soccer, rugby, cricket, boxing and field hockey were all codified first in the same country

So people didn't kick around a ball before? Or fought hand to hand before rules?

These seem like pretty natural things IMO

Bit like saying rap music was invented when language begun.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but, let's play devils advocate for a moment. Wouldn't those who remained in their countries amidst it's turmoil, times of socio-economic depression be stronger compared to those who fled?

Ya, only soft cunts ran away to the colonies.

Most Americans associate soccer with Latin America not Britain

What does this have to do with the topic?

Just an explanation why soccer will never be popular in America

American football looks nothing like rugby
Baseball looks nothing like cricket

They're their own thing. That's why most rugby players can't play American football and most cricketers can't play baseball

>American football looks nothing like rugby
It does alot, actually.

>Baseball looks nothing like cricket
Baseball wasn't a Cricket ripoff, it was another bat and ball sport that was exactly like Baseball but british.

too bad basketball was invented by a canadian

Soccer wasn't nearly as entrenched when colonisation happened. In most of the colonies here the only sport anyone played was cricket, till footy was invented to keep cricket players for during winter. Rugby came a little after that and we were only really exposed to soccer once the wogs moved here after the post-war period.

the Brits settled in Argentina and Uruguay and built infrastructure and companies for decades before fucking off due to the Spanish
Why do you think so many Argentine teams like Newell's old boys or River Plate have english names

They're both very different sports, but it's obvious that baseball stems from cricket. A lot of the terminology was pinched from cricket, as is the general concept of hitting a thrown ball and running between points without being caught

>due to the Spanish

lolwut

due to Per(r)on

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_nationalisation_in_Argentina

Isn't the A League growing to be the most popular sport in Australia?

Cause we aren't poor and dedicate every ounce of energy to kicking a ball around. We have other things to do like go to school and jobs. In favela towns you just sit around kicking a ball around and eat the neighbors dog.

Then why is the UK really into soccer?

kek

KEK

the A League is only watched by wogs and lebs. It doesn't come close to scraping the popularity of rugby and footy in their home states.

To put things into perspective, an amateur women's cricket league attracted three times the number of viewers as the A League did

It's more popular than Rugby Union though

it must be tough being so autistic

Rugby union isn't popular at all

You don't understand Rugby or Cricket burger lad do you?

All the Anglo colonies developed and/or choose far better sports with superior game design.

>rugby

Stupid ripoff of American football

>cricket

ZzzzZZzzzZZZzz

England needs to get back to cricket and rugby as their top two. Soccer is the worst sport they popularized.

I get why 3rd worlders like it. Simple to set up a game in some dusty village with a goat's head and a few rocks to mark off goals, but for reasonably well off countries, there's no excuse not to be imaginative with your sporting culture.

this is why you are the butt of the world's jokes my man

Your concept of imaginative is paying Mariah Carey 1 million dollars to do a 30 second mobile gaming ad, and people tuning in just to see it.

>all this butthurt for Football being the most popular sport in the world and not Handegg

Is not only 3rd world countries, all of Europe loves it to, including Germany, a much more developed country than Britain.

Football's commercialism has nothing to do with the brilliance of its game design.

>Germany
>more developed than Britain
Lol no

They have a bigger HDI, GDP and GDP per capta.

Do you think the decline in viewership is due to over-commercialisation?

You are completely and utterly wrong here, chum(p). Germany is in 3017 compared to britbongistan. Even >we are more developed lmao

>Do you think the decline in viewership is due to over-commercialisation?

Probably a host of things. I think the number one reason though is that fantasy players can now follow their players on their phones in real time as opposed to having to find a television to watch.

The NFL's regular season ratings peak we saw in the mid-00s to the early-10s was primarily the result of fantasy participation. Now it's just returning to pre-fantasy levels.

Article from '10, when NFL ratings peaked and before smartphones became ubiquitous:

articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/19/entertainment/la-et-1219-nfl-fantasy-20101219

>Rugby union isn't popular at all
why is this?

As a neutral who will sometimes tune in to Aussie sports, Union is kind of a repetitive slog. AFL and League are just better.

Interesting, I am and was totally oblivious to the fantasy football industry.

He's right though

horrible management by the ARU in the 2000s killed it
it was never huge here either since it was seen as a posh sport played in private schools and if there's one thing Australians hate it's something that's posh. I went to a fancy private school and even I find the union image off putting.

footy yeah, league is just garbage though

To add onto the mismanagement stuff( the ARU literally do not give a fuck about grassroots rugby. So long as private schools in New South Wales and Queensland produce players then they're happy.

They're about to axe the Western Australian side, even though it was the third biggest rugby state thanks to the large South African influence in Perth. They decided to retain the Victorian side who are much worse simply because Victoria has a bigger population and therefore they must be more profitable even though there's absolutely no way any sport other than footy and cricket could ever get a foothold over there.

That was after giving the WA side half the funding the Victorians were getting too.

I don't watch rugby but all my rugby mates here are absolutely livid over it all. Half of them have said they're never watching the sport again.

They have tournaments in Honduras

but Wallabies are actually good, aren't they? Do most of them play in other countires?

we're a rich country so it's easy for a minor sport to have good development programs. Super Rugby also has them playing against New Zealand sides, so they compete at a very high level.
from what I can tell, the rugby team is like our soccer team, in that most players have parents from regions where the sport is more popular. The only anglo players you get that aren't from Africa are ones that went to the aforementioned rich private schools in New South Wales and Queensland. There's also a few code jumpers like that Israel Folau bloke who started off playing league, switched to AFL and then switched to union

>Rugby
Intelligent flowing American Football

>Cricket
Intelligent Baseball.

a) football is the game of the working class, not 18th century colonisers
b) we left behind future functional nations that were white and could therefore think for themselves
c) football being big in south america is probably more down to the British exporting it rather than Spanish/Portuguese doing so

It's been almost 150 years.

That's a long time

sport in England then wasn't like it was now

everywhere England had a large influence on during that period isn't really that big on soccer, while cricket and rugby are all popular.

Sport came from officers of the convict fleets and they all played rugby and cricket, particularly cricket since that was the game of aristocrats at the time