@GenSecMeowist Great answer to a question I did not ask and I don't disagree with. Now, did we experience the same outrage when Indian hockey missed the 2024 paris olympics?
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@raitatsunami still ain't close to what hellhole we're in in footy
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Given we have some of the oldest clubs and football tournaments, it's really a shame we are so pathetic.
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@GenSecMeowist So did you outrage when we missed on qualification? Did you feel that pang of shame? Or was it a mild inconvenience?
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@raitatsunami we're not so lagging in hockey atleast we qualify to the world cup and reach semis/final in the olympics
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@GenSecMeowist You don't experience that shame when we had losses in hockey. The oversized shame is just fomo.
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@raitatsunami are you dumb? can't you read what I just told you?
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“Very Very little competition,so it achieved success easily”,my brother in Christ we had a losing record in international and test cricket every decade of the 20th century and just 1 ICC tournament.The defining feature of (test) cricket is how long it takes new nations to succeed
Rahul Raj@RahulRajVerse
The two biggest reasons cricket became popular in India: 1. Very Very little competition, so it achieved success easily, which pushed the delusion among Indians that they were world-class. 2. The hype around India–Pakistan matches, which was directly linked to nationalism and other sentiments. This further embedded the idea that cricket = nationalism. Ask your parents , grandparents and elders Football was way more popular in india before 1983 world cup. But the fluke win because of very low competition made india think they are world class in something
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@AsArunScribeth How much additional tax are you willing to pay to make this happen?
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A country that slips to 136th rank...what should we accept? Every time the WC comes around,we see articles like this. Despite having so many enthusiasts,we're not even in the top 100. It's not only about hard work;money is needed too. Otherwise, we'll keep getting articles only
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China: Why a country of 1.3 billion is not in the cricket and football worldcup.
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@BilalAh73577609 @FPLgrassfc @ke48146 @Cric_Is_lovee How is this even an answer? Compare viewership between EPL and Olympic football, NBA and olympic Basketball etc. Major squads announce second round squads for the olympics.
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@FPLgrassfc @ke48146 @Cric_Is_lovee Olympic isn't a single sport, it's not possible that your country isn't even interested in even one sport
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@ke48146 @Cric_Is_lovee "Your math scores have not improved after private tution($1 trillion plus spent on football)"
"My home economics score has"
"But you spent time and money on math tuitio.."
"Uh uh uh..Home economics score"
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@Cric_Is_lovee But they win 100s of medals in olympics and btw no one gives a f*ck about 🦗🦗🏏🏏
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@ppindia18 @Iyervval Nadir Shah was a Turanian. Analogous to a Sri Lankan/Indonesian Hindu ruler of India.
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500 BC: Greece Vs Iran
350 BC: Alexander Vs Iran
150: Rome Vs Iran
550: Byzantium Vs Iran
650: Arabs Vs Iran
1200: Mongols Vs Iran
1514: Ottomans Vs Iran
1850: Russia Vs Iran
1941: UK+USSR Vs Iran
1986: USA vs Iran
2026: USA vs Iran
All of them “defeated” Iran, so how is Iran the only constant?
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@blispr @ShrinivasDempo How will you find football? What is the monetization model? How will you compete with EPL or Champions league for money? How do you redirect football fandom into Indian and local leagues?
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Every Indian #football lover knows the answer . Do you think #viratkohli as a #cricket ambassador, will he be able to fill a single stadium outside #india, like #messi or #cr7 ?? Cricket is a lovely game but no match for #soccer in a lot of areas. And india's football team is good enough to compete
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Cape Verde holding Spain and Curaçao reaching the World Cup stage should make every Indian football lover ask a fair question: why not us?
There is no single answer. We need deeper grassroots football, more trained coaches, regular youth leagues and patient club pathways. Passion must become a pipeline.
#IndianFootball
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I wish football never grows in India. These football fans keep crying that cricket is ruining football. They never question the performance of our football team, but complain about cricket day and night. And honestly seeing them blame cricket for football’s failure is satisfying.
Harsh 17 @harsh03443
This guy is still standing by his comment, saying that the BCCI will never invest in football because they fear that if football grows, it will finish cricket in India 😭😭
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@raitatsunami @CrimsonScalpel from defeating asian giants to getting ass kicked by minnows it's a shame
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@RahulMukherji5 Predictable lack of research. FIFA is structurally preferring MENA over the rest of Asia. India, ASEAN and China are the net losers.
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"Why isn't China in the World Cup?"
This is so petty, defensive & factually incorrect.
For one, China has actually played in a World Cup. 2002.
Besides, China has 700+ Olympic medals, 300+ of them being gold.
And they've dominated TT & Badminton for the longest time.
Unreal!
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@PrinceBatr66154 @ZT3Apex @PrincessuClara Notice how the highest one is run by communist and congress?
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The Indian idea of 'destroying someone's PR' is making them look more indian
The same way they confuse Muslim sects for castes they have now confused Chinese professions and status levels for castes
As I said...there is no nation more delusional and low IQ than Indians
Lala@FabulasGuy
It took just 10-12 indian with few thousand followers to destroy year old china’s PR Indian literally cooked Chinese on twitter, and meltdown is just epic 🤣🔥
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@Tadpolewasj @ZT3Apex @PocoP88597 1 in million cases and people will still refer to them as Dalits. Caste is a retarded concept and passed down as hereditary
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@avishek_g @joybhattacharj FIFA won’t take such govt action too kindly
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The truth is that FIFA is desperate to get India to play in the World Cup, has been for a while as we are literally the largest sports market with just a single sport dominating, the last fairly unexplored major market in sport.
They gave us the FIFA U17 World Cup on which I worked for that reason. The women's U 17 as well, they also wanted to give us the U20 tournament if our team continued to do improve, but the AIFF had imploded by then.
FIFA, like every world sporting body other than the ICC, wants to bring our huge audiences to their sport. It is our collective sports administration incompetence coupled with a clunky structure of sports being in the state list instead of the central list that is shooting us in the foot.
And why most major Indian sporting achievements have been individual, despite the system instead of thanks to the system.
Ashish Negi@7negiashish
If FIFA decides to expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams, then the AFC should receive at least 11.5 qualification slots. With Asia's population, investment in football, improving competitiveness and the growing number of nations capable of competing at World Cup level, a proportional increase in AFC representation would be justified.
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@jareen66 @Mohansinha Cricket is a sport snatched from the colonial elite and created into a world class Global IP. Meanwhile every investment into football enriches the Euro elite.
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@Mohansinha Because cricket is playing seriously by just 10 Nations and the rest are just wannabes whereas Football is played by almost all the countries in the world and it is tough and challenging sport requiring immense skill
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Yeah sure. Ever asked why China, a country of over a billion people doesn't play in any of the cricket world cups or the world Test championship?
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@Mumbaikar1936 @Mohansinha Bhai us acronym ka alag hi NSFW meaning hai. I had the misfortune of googling it on a zoom call between friends😂
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@Mohansinha BBC has changed its name to
Bullshit Broadcasting China
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@Mohansinha China, in a single olympic has more medals than the entirety of India’s olympic participation
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