Airfried comments on How do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 26 points 3 months ago (6 children)

China has far more money than Italy. Especially in sports. They're just traditionally bad at team sports. As a nation, that is. There are of course Chinese star athletes playing in a team on the international stage but not enough to actually compete in most things as a national team.

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Another factor is probably cultural. These countries simply don't have rhe obsession with football during childhood that other nations have. I might be misinformed, but I've not gotten the impression that every Chinese child, no matter how poor, spends all their time outside playing football. But that is the impression I have of, say, Brazil.

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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Apparently China has a booming football culture (according to Wikipedia at least), but it seems to be a mostly in-house venture for now. Basketball is popular too. Maybe we’ll see more international competition in the future?

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[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

There are a lot of reasons, but culture is definitely high among them. China has spent a lot of time and money over the years trying to improve their football presence but it hasn't been working at all.

https://www.dw.com/en/china-pivots-football-focus-from-mens-to-womens-game/a-63763569

https://www.dw.com/en/how-china-wants-to-become-a-football-heavyweight/a-63652825

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