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How do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?
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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.
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.
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?
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
Chinese kids grow up learning how to cooperate instead of how to compete.
Then wouldn't they do better in team sports than individual sports?
They're both competitions.