Povertyball

>povertyball

I don't mind insults, you know like divegrass and whatnot.
but what's the retarded reasoning behind "povertyball" even?

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Poor people play it.

Wow, that was hard.

Even poorfags in Africa can afford to kick a ball. Patrician sports like hockey actually cost money because you need an arena for the ice.

>but what's the retarded reasoning behind "povertyball" even?
It's an Americanism that derives from the fact that without shit tons of third world dregs being dumped into this god forsaken country, soccer would probably not even have a collegiate league.

it's a popular sport amongst brown people who don't have any advanced skills and don't know what hot water is.

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Anyone can play an okay approximation of football in an alleyway, but american sports require more of a setup. That is part of why it is the most popular sport. The only thing you can do with a handegg in an alleyway is throw it

Soccer requires a lot of skill, you fucking dumb amerilard.

You can do it. Baseball is popular in some poor countries and basketball as well. See pic related

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poor people play other sports too.
and rich people play football as well, why not richball then?

no you don't.
use a stick and a ball on the same field you play football.
there, poor people can play hockey.

it's also popular amongst white people from rich countries.

>but american sports require more of a setup.
no they don't.
literal caribbean niglets from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua etc. play Baseball on the street with a stick and a ball.
you can do the same with literally every sport.

i meant useful skills, you know like engineering, water purification, and taking out the garbage.

>Soccer requires a lot of skill, you fucking dumb amerilard.
he was talking about jobs, you dummy.

It's a working class game around the world except in America where it's ironically a sport for rich, suburban white kids. Kinda explains why we suck at it and why it's not popular here.

>It's a working class game around the world
literally what

I'm on a sports board so I assumed you were talking about sports using the argument that it takes more skills in sports like hockey. People use this argument sometimes. Your argument is dumb as fuck though because majority of sports are played by people without "advanced skills"

I think you quoted the wrong guy

meant it to

stickball is actually an entirely different sport. it was specifically invented to be easier to play in city streets, because sticks don't hit the ball nearly as far as a cylindrical bat can.

Dont try to understand Americans man. They're divided af on everything, race class gender etc.

Football is not a working class game, the working class just plays it too. Everyone loves football in the rest of the world regardless of class/gender/whatever

>literal caribbean niglets from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua etc. play Baseball on the street with a stick and a ball.
No shit. It's an old hollywood trope to start out some early 20th century movie set in new york with a bunch of kids playing baseball in the middle of a street.

no i was talking about infrastructure, something that often seems to elude brown people.

>Dont try to understand Americans man. They're divided af on everything, race class gender etc.
t. the country with literal National Socialists gaining popularity in their country.

do you think that people playing 5 a side's on the street are actually playing under FIFA's laws of the game or something?

it's still soccer. stickball isn't baseball. you don't even really need to know how to pitch, because it's so hard to even hit the ball.

Well by that logic then people don't play football but futsal on the streets. Another sport:
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>without shit tons of third world dregs being dumped into this god forsaken country, soccer would probably not even have a collegiate league.
fucking this
we see the rising popularity of soccer in this country as what it is.
It's our nation's death rattle.

on the street you don't really need to know how to play football because there's no offsides, no goalposts, literally not even half of the players or a quarter of the size of a football pitch.

if you don't consider "stickball" as baseball, then that's not football.

Is that an alleyway though?

That's still more cumbersome than just a football, don't deny it

>you can literally just use a tree branch or a broomstick
sure m8

it still closely resembles the original sport and a layman would not be able to tell the difference. stickball has a completely different defensive formation than baseball.

>it still closely resembles the original sport and a layman would not be able to tell the difference.
no it fucking doesn't.
>stickball has a completely different defensive formation than baseball.
you can literally say the exact same thing about both sports

Sounds like Baltimore or Detroit

well i'm not able to tell the difference and when it comes to soccer i am an absolute layman. just face it, poor people like soccer. i don't know why that fact gets you so angry.

even those cities have white people behind the scenes keeping them from becoming planet of the apes.

well i'm not able to tell the difference and when it comes to baseball i am an absolute layman. just face it, poor people like baseball. i don't know why that fact gets you so angry.

things Americans don't like about soccer
>skinny twinks play it in highschool
>you fall down like a faggot and make le ebin grimace to get pretty cards given to your opponent
>literally every brown foreigner in your classes is insane for the sport

American children do not play soccer on the playground. We play tetherball, 2/4 square, kickball(baseball with feets), basketball, and sometimes wallball if your buddy doesn't forget his tennis ball in his backpack. If Pablo Rodriguez shows up and wants everyone to play soccer, but he also steals two kids' ipods during PE, the children are not going to associate anything positive with the sport, because little Pablo was a thief who wore jeans too big for himself and wifebeaters under his plaid button-up in the 6th grade.

but poor people don't like baseball because in order to get anywhere in the sport you need to spend thousands every year to put your kid on a travel team.

Do you rednecks also unironically watch Ann Coulter?

baseball is the most popular sport in: cuba, dominican republic and venezuela.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Venezuela

>but poor people don't like baseball

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I'm more of a rachel maddow guy desu

now list all the countries with unsafe drinking water where soccer is popular

>now list all the countries with unsafe drinking water where soccer is popular
Irrelevant. I was showing that your claim was wrong.

that's not really the level of poverty that people refer to when they say povertyball. there are countries in Africa that are crazy about soccer and they literally, unironically have to get water from a fucking well, and portion it so they have enough for drinking and showering.

who said that poor people don't like football?
stop strawmanning, you mongoloid.

I'm not I am My request is highly relevant to my point.

so that instantly cancels out the remaining 90% of the world that don't live in those conditions and love football?

my point is soccer is flexible enough that it can go allllll the way down to the very bottom of the barrel. unlike other sports.

Fine

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I would like to request that you factor in which countries we receive immigration from when you try to discern why we see soccer as a sport for poor asses.

hint: not Norway, my dude

name a sport that a poor person from Africa that loves football can't play in the same conditions.

They haven't won anything important though at an international level.

Prefer calling it wogball tbqh

>the world is only USA

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oh wow look all those shitholers my country is being filled to brim with love SOCCER! wtf I feel so multicultural!

When I refer to a sport as "working class" I mean that there's enough working class people who play it that the possibility of them going pro isn't a pipe dream. Most professional athletes are rich kids. The Winter Olympics is great proof of that. The main exceptions are sports like football in Brazil, basketball in the US or boxing where there's a lot of pros who grew up poor.
Greece is so poor and racist I'd quicker take my Black ass to Mississippi than visit your indebted shithole nation. When you have money you can play hockey and/or basketball. When you don't have money you can't play hockey and will probably play basketball. It's simple math you fucking roach. Pay denbts now!

I like how you guys always ignore the part where the countries with the highest HDI are located.

>he posted it again
>he frogposted
Argentina I thought you were more intelligent than this.

Casual Soccer League
>A ball, cleats, some unis, some colored "cards", a publicly maintained field and publicly maintained nets, maybe some volunteer refs
Cost: A few $100s for the game between two teams (assuming new gear)

Casual Hockey League
>Skates, pads, armor, sweaters, helmets, sticks and replacements, a frozen puck, a maintained rink and nets (private only in most if not all cases), maybe some volunteer refs with skates
$2-3000 PER PLAYER (assuming new gear)

It's really not hard to understand Argentina. I know you're living in a developing country and I wish it the best, but come on. The sport is dirt cheap to play and that's one of the reasons its so popular. One of the reasons basketball has been relatively successful internationally too.

baseball for one, the type of bat needed to play correctly is simply not affordable for them, and then of course you have to outfit the whole team with gloves, and the catcher so he doesn't get killed. definitely not hockey, they can't afford to maintain a skating rink and all the equipment. they could play a seriously neutered version of american football but it's not the same sport without the kicking factor. basketball is pretty much their only American option.

povertyball is an Americanism
we are operating under that assumption
in relation to America, when you factor in which countries we receive immigration from, you can discern EXACTLY why we associate the sport with poor people.

the answer to the original question asked at the beginning of this thread lies here Poor brown people love soccer.
Politicians in my country do not allow immigration from countries in any measurable sense from countries that are not, you guessed it, poor and brown.

Hockey isn't even your main sport. There are more than one sport. Do it for one of your big sports like basketball.. Oh that's doesn't work right because even have a basketball league and it's played in the same places you guys like to mock.

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>comparing football to a niche sport like ice hockey
a real question would be why football a working class sport and rugby a middle upper class sport, both need the same amount of money to play

>I know you're living in a developing country
ok, I'm not even gonna waste my time with a mong like you.

>australia
>cricket the most popular sport
That map's pretty wrong m8.

>The countries with the highest HDI also love soccer and Europeans invented it.
Like I said before. We do not receive any measurable amount of immigration from Europe. Nor Australia. Nor New Zealand. Nor anywhere in the world that isn't poor. And definitely not from anywhere that isn't non-White. The least poor immigrants we get are fucking chinese. Other than that, it's all mexicomexicomexicomexicomexicomexicomexico.

Ice hockey. Roller hockey is the closest analogue for warm climates, but even that requires a hard, even surface to play. You can't skate on dirt. Any sport where people run has a completely different feel to it due to the lack of speed and completely different handling characteristics of a ball compared to a puck.

>baseball for one, the type of bat needed to play correctly is simply not affordable for them, and then of course you have to outfit the whole team with gloves, and the catcher so he doesn't get killed.
again, do you think that poor people in Africa play under FIFA laws of the game?
do you think they have a proper fotoball field, proper football boots, shinpads so they don't break their legs, goalposts and even a proper fucking football?

all you need to play baseball is a stick and a ball.
instead of ice hockey you can play field hockey with a stick and a ball.
all you need to play handegg is your hands and an egg.
all you need to play basketball is a basket and a ball.

Why is baseball popular with commies?

nah man, you need a certain kind of bat in order to hit the ball far enough and aim it where you want it to go. imagine playing soccer, but with a cube instead of a ball. the cheapest baseball bats start a $80 USD. the cheapest ones that will last longer than a year, anyway.

It became popular before turning communist, guess why? They were American satellite states, and once you get that close to the USA you start to hate capitalism

>implying there's anything wrong with frogposting
Go back to Sup Forums or Sup Forums fag, also
>I know you're living in a developing country and I wish it the best, but come on
Real smooth

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so basically same shit like handegg, basketball and baseball in usa

cultural stigma probably.

both could have world class appeal, although the physical injuries present with rugby would shy parents from shoving their kids into it.

Football doesn't have that problem. Equals more world adoption.

I'm being cheeky boy. I acknowledged your stupid post, now you can acknowledge mine and prove to yourself why the memename makes sense.

Or you can continue making this stupid thread every night for (you)s

frogposting is for Sup Forums children now ever since r/the_donald took over Sup Forums. didn't you get the memo?

HUh I thought it was Slaveball?

Rugby is divided along cultural lines, my dudes.
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>frogposting is for Sup Forums children now ever since r/the_donald took over Sup Forums. didn't you get the memo?
Nah, I do what I want.

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you say that like it's a bad thing

dubs confirms you can do what you want and i can trash you for it anyway

interesting shit.

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