sanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · vor 1 MonatHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todayimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down18
arrow-up1414arrow-down1imageHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · vor 1 Monatmessage-square103fedilink
minus-squareThalion@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down6·vor 30 TagenYou realize that pretending to not know what the most watched sporting event in the world is just makes you seem like an idiot, right?
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·vor 30 TagenMany sports have a ‘world cup’.
minus-squarestarchylemming@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·vor 30 Tagenall of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets sadly
minus-squareKillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachtslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·vor 30 TagenBut only the USA has a world cup with local teams
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-2vor 29 TagenI 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
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·vor 29 TagenIt clearly comes from the fact that to Americans the world is just the US and Canada
minus-squaresqw@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·vor 29 TagenUSA has its World Series (baseball, and not open to the world). What’s the closed USA world cup?
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’.
all of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets
sadly
But only the USA has a world cup with local teams
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
USA has its World Series (baseball, and not open to the world). What’s the closed USA world cup?
Only one has ‘The’ World Cup