Reminder if europeans and south americans had a proper sport to play instead of soccer no one would bother with that...

reminder if europeans and south americans had a proper sport to play instead of soccer no one would bother with that shitty game
reminder regions that actually have a viable alternative to soccer (Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada) do not give a fuck about it

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>a fucking kangaroo nigger

It's interesting that the colonies of England don't play football such as America, Canada, India, China and New Zealand, but the rest of the world does

it's because soccer wasn't properly established when colonisation occurred. Australian rules football was actually the first football game to be properly codified.

It was exported to the rest of the world once it was actually engrained in England, and by then we were all off playing rugby or our own games

because it's a spainard's game, rugby is the englishman's.

You forgot a country OP ;)

>Cricket
Relevant because poos breed like insects
>AFL
Talk about not giving a fuck...
>Union
Kind of decent, but there's more people in a line out that countries that take it seriously
>League
It's kind of funny that mungos decided to organize a world cup. No sense of shame at all.
>Netball
The skirts are nice

sage this shit

Brazil has volleyball

Just because football is by far the most popular sport in the world doesn't mean its biggest fans on the national level exclusively play that sport you brainlet.

Based australia. Diveshit is truly the worst sport in the world.

The ex-British colonies all had their own sports by the time soccer was codified in England and started spreading to the rest of the world (1880s/1890s iirc). Cricket in particular was very popular long before soccer, the world's first international cricket game was the US vs Canada. We lost, and promptly declared the sport "stupid and boring" and decided to stick with baseball.

Rugby and basketball have been pretty popular there for a while now.

Did #4 have a shotgun and throw it behind his back lmao?

oddly enough Canada never really gave a fuck about cricket, even though it managed to stick around in certain regions America up till as late as the 1930s

From what I've read, in the US it was always a sport for the northeastern upper-middle class, the kind who literally taught their children to speak with fake British accents and just aped British culture as much as possible. That's part of why it never got truly big here and everyone ended up liking baseball more. I wonder if the same thing happened in Canada, only with hockey.

Yeah that was the way cricket was back then

The English actively tried to prevent the Indians from playing it since it was meant to be the gentleman's game back then. Australia was the first country where the working class started playing and eventually dominated, but the upper class shit persisted until the 1960s.
In South Africa the blacks weren't even allowed to play it since the boers thought they didn't have the intellect for it.

It's a strange game in that people actively tried to restrict those who played it for over a hundred years. It's actually amazing that it actually became an international sport and didn't go the way of cricket in America.

>It's actually amazing that it actually became an international sport
>became an international sport
>an international sport
Peter Paki akchually believes this

Just because chile doesn't play it doesn't mean it's not international mate

it's a major sport in at least one country on every inhabited continent and in 25+ countries overall

El australiANO seƱores

Name 15 of those countries pls

By numbers alone, cricket is fucking massive. It's the number one sport in South Asia, which has like 1.5 billion people. Then you include it's popularity in the UK/Aus/NZ, as well as Sub-Saharan Africa...it's a major global sport. In numbers alone it's second only to soccer. And it's certainly an international sport.

Australia
England
India
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Kenya
Papua New Guinea
Pakistan
United Arab Emirates
Oman
Barbados
Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Kitts
Nevis
Antigua and Barbuda
Dominica
Montserrat
St Helena
Grenada
Bahamas
Bermuda
Afghanistan
New Zealand
Guyana
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Uganda
Namibia
Nepal
Bhutan
Guernsey
Jersey
Botswana
Nigeria
Samoa
Fiji
Vanuatu

*include its popularity

Only people who care about cricket are indians immigrants and their children. Pakis too.

Cricket is essentially the same as hockey in its international activity level. It's just that cricket's countries have a much higher population

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I'm obviously talking about the colonial period not modern day Canada you fucking mong
>cricket is essentially the same as hockey in its international activity level
"no"

>That list
can't this shit up

>Only people who care about cricket are indians immigrants and their children. Pakis too.
Same here. A cricket game could fill a stadium in New York but that doesn't mean the general population cares about it. It's basically the same as ping pong/table tennis, only with Indians/Pakis instead of Chinese.

Come on, cricket is huge internationally. It's irrelevant in our country but surely we can't ignore that for 1/7 of the world's population it's the #1 sport?

It's just an awkward sport with no nuance scoring wise yet rife with subjective foibles(like diving)

>saving thumbnails

>It's irrelevant in our country
DELET THIS I?M NOT TEXAS WTF

*in our countries

The way soccer is so dependent on random luck/bad referee decisions is stunning. You can play like shit for 89 minutes, but if you set up well for your corner kick and score a lucky header you win the game.

I meant to say "our countries".

>falling for them

>"our countries"
>Implying USA is not Latino
jajajajsjkajskajskajskjk

You're welcome btw

Nice. Admit it, you just copied the list from a United Nations list of countries needing international assistance due to famine/poverty/war.

haha seen this one before champ

>it's because soccer wasn't properly established when colonisation occurred.

Yep.

>Conservatives argue that soccer doesn't embody our individualistic ideals while liberals point to our relative ignorance about what goes on in the rest of the world. But what if we asked the opposite question? What if this isn't about why we don't like soccer, but why the hell does the rest of the world love it so much?

>In his 1994 book Games and Empires, sports historian Allen Guttmann writes "in almost every instance, the first to adopt soccer and other modern sports where the cosmopolitan sons of the local elites, many of whom had been educated at English schools in their own country or abroad."

>This suggests that the reason soccer is not popular in the states has more to do with the fact that our independence came in the 18th century rather than our failure to appreciate soccer's rightful place at the top of the sports world. Modern sports didn't come of age until the late 19th century/early 20th century, so it wasn't part of the colonial program yet. Put simply, the Brits didn't have America as a colony at the right time in order for us to become soccer lovers en masse.

esquire.com/sports/news/a23699/america-soccer-love/

so, how was your first day on Sup Forums, newfriend?

... but they don't, so suck shit

Australia and Canada and India were still colonies

DOWN CANCER with the absolutely awful posts

thanks for the input Alberto Di Martini

AFL is not a sport.

Australian Rules Football is the sport, the AFL is the governing body and top tier professional league.

A league Saturday nights on free tv channel ONE

shan't watch

>t. wog

EVERYDAY UNTIL YOU LIKE IT, YA FUCKIN SKIPS

A FUCKING AMATEUR CRICKET LEAGUE

>we hate soccer too, America. please notice

also it's the 21st century, countries are able to play any sport they want and they reject these niche sports. look at rugby union spectacularly failing at expansion.

>Football is the biggest sport in the world and literally every single country on Earth has a football team, even tiny places like Gibraltar and San Marino
>Literally nobody gives a fuck about whatever "sports" bogans and cleetuses play
P o t t e r y

We have rugby though

It's actually wrong, Pakistan doesn't have a team (I wonder why, aren't they civilized fellows?)

So basically, all of the colonies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_national_football_team

>English Colonials tried to prevent their subjects from playing
>Figuring out the score requires a PhD

Yet somehow cricket is more popular than baseball/rounders in most countries.

Also why did cricket never take off in Canada?

Yeah but I meant Pakis don't care. The are like 203th in FIFA rankings

But they still have a team and that was my point Pierre. Just admit that you're wrong.

In his analysis, independence from the UK pre-1903 seems to be the "key year."

India indeed didn't gain until 1947, but cricket is the number 1 sport and soccer is the number 2 sport there.

Real footy (not that AFL tripe) is massively growing in the country, Bruce. I welcome it. We need to start playing proper worldwide sports instead of focusing so much on Aussie Fools and Boreblock (no fun beating hungry 3rd wordlers all the time).

I think partly it's because you people and Antipodeans were so desperate to be seen as "not-British" that you came up with any excuse to try and drive that narrative

So most developed countries (i.e. Europe) joined our game in good spirits, but you guys were too butthurt to do so

>soccer 1st
>fucking golf 2nd

Seriously doubt this

>So most developed countries (i.e. Europe) joined our game in good spirits, but you guys were too butthurt to do so

That's absolute horseshit.

You guys act like soccer was fully form and "the world's sport" from day 1. Fact is, the first games you Brits brought over when you settled were bat-and-ball and "mob football" games with rule sets that varied wildly by region (even in the UK).

This was the height of the industrial revolution and experimentation was the norm, especially in the UK where schools and regions had about 80 different "football" games among them.

There's was no edict issued from on high that said, "This is the dominant football code!"

Soccer developed around the same time as Aussie Rules (which is actually older), American football, and Canadian football, all having ancestry in those English mob football games, so there was nothing "anti-British" about. That's a meme.

On the bat-and-ball side, Henry Chadwick, an Brit ex-pat Cricket player was instrumental in developing modern baseball (which has British ancestry, and no, not in Rounders. Baseball goes back to medieval folk games). Not out of anti-Englishness, but because that was the spirit of the times (they were doing the same thing in England with "football" games). Again, there was no "worldwide sports" structure like we see today.

but the sporting infrastructure was already developed

Wow I didn't know it was so easy to trigger a yank.

>implying i'm going to read any of that

fagdive is just an all around embarrassing """"sport""""