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On 10/30/2022 at 3:17 PM, pixelaoffy said:

It is "Soccer"   That gets them needled

It doesn't, "Soccer" is an abbreviation of the word association football and was used in the UK to distinguish the game from rugby football 

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5 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

It doesn't, "Soccer" is an abbreviation of the word association football and was used in the UK to distinguish the game from rugby football 

Same people get hung up on a name  just the same as 'world series '.  It's hilarious 

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Granting a monopoly to True Visions was a horrendous and likely highly corrupt decision. Monopolies are bad for society. Their programming is very inferior. 

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8 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Granting a monopoly to True Visions was a horrendous and likely highly corrupt decision. Monopolies are bad for society. Their programming is very inferior. 

Are you talking about the Premier League?  If so, Truevisions weren't "granted" it, they bought the exclusive rights for broadcasting it in Thailand and it cost a lot!  Granted, their coverage isn't great (in terms of Thai punditry), but it's the way football works these days.  Money talks.

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On 11/3/2022 at 4:47 PM, Sparktrader said:

Cricket has more appeal. 1.2bn Indians love it.

It seems that like baseball cricket doesn't export well.

Cricket seems to be popular only in former British colonies.

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On 11/5/2022 at 4:32 AM, Pmbkk said:

Enjoy the Football WORLD cup - played by most nations.

IMHO one of the great things about fútbol is that it costs almost nothing for kids to play.

Kids play with soda cans as balls, they play without shoes, they can always find a way to play if they want to.

It seems that no other sport can compare with the world wide talent pool that fútbol draws from.

Although you would expect that a large talent pool would lead to the athletes with the greatest gifts, it seems it isn't that simple or China, India and Indonesia (having the largest populations) would dominate sports.

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A rumor that has been circulating since the Cuban Revolution is that Fidel came to the US to try out as a baseball player a few years before.  Consider the effect on geopolitics if he had made the grade.  That the Cuban people were crazy about baseball was a national embarrassment for the Castro commies.

I do think when other countries started playing pro baseball, like Japan ("basabaru"), the US should have opened it up.

On the other hand people in the US complain that the soccer World Cup is only on the Spanish-language stations.

 

 

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6 hours ago, cdemundo said:

IMHO one of the great things about fútbol is that it costs almost nothing for kids to play.

Kids play with soda cans as balls, they play without shoes, they can always find a way to play if they want to.

It seems that no other sport can compare with the world wide talent pool that fútbol draws from.

Although you would expect that a large talent pool would lead to the athletes with the greatest gifts, it seems it isn't that simple or China, India and Indonesia (having the largest populations) would dominate sports.

They dont have sporting talent

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