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
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
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
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.
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
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…
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
No we are talking about a game. Adults still play soccer even not professionally all over the place. I feel sorry for you people who don’t think adults can have fun. Must be a dull dreary life.
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.
Said nothing about adults not being able to enjoy children’s’ games. Taking it as seriously and getting as upset as these three replies is fucking hilarious to me. Get some perspective and enjoy the game lmao
I didn’t realize the game they play at the World Cup is fundamentally different than the game of futbol. Thank you for enlightening me. It’s WAY different than the children’s game, my bad. /s
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?
Africa:
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?
Many sports have a ‘world cup’.
Only one has ‘The’ World Cup
all of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets
sadly
But only the USA has a world cup with local teams
USA has its World Series (baseball, and not open to the world). What’s the closed USA world cup?
I was about to post an erm ackshually but I checked my facts.
It clearly comes from the fact that to Americans the world is just the US and Canada
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
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
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.
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
Football/Soccer is the second most popular sport in India. It wasn’t that hard to find out. Quit being a prick.
yeah, nobody in China knows about the world cup, and that’s my WeChat feed is full of posts related to the world cup…
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…
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.
I don’t even know what you’re talking about
They are corrupt, but that has nothing to do with organizing the world cup so one specific team will win it.
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.
I didn’t get the theory. The world cup groups are defined in a televised draw. Are you saying that the draw is fixed?
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
There’s literally no correlation between those two things.
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…
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.
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.
Lmfao!
You: I’m not mad, you’re mad!
You’re talking about a children’s game, mind you.
No we are talking about a game. Adults still play soccer even not professionally all over the place. I feel sorry for you people who don’t think adults can have fun. Must be a dull dreary life.
Those sure are a lot of implications about my one sentence reply. Please get more upset.
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.
Said nothing about adults not being able to enjoy children’s’ games. Taking it as seriously and getting as upset as these three replies is fucking hilarious to me. Get some perspective and enjoy the game lmao
Agreed. See below (a pictorial guide to this thread)
There are children playing in the World Cup?
I didn’t realize the game they play at the World Cup is fundamentally different than the game of futbol. Thank you for enlightening me. It’s WAY different than the children’s game, my bad. /s