Why do all ex-British colonies suck at soccer? Didn't England

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Soccer is the sport of plebs. British soldiers and aristocracy who actually went to other countries and lead the culture of the time were far more into sports like Rugby and Cricket.

>>78046831
you forgot their favourite sport, noncing little kids

all notable british colonies are relatively good at soccer for their confederation, with the exception being canada

>>78046496
we have better sports like rugby and cricket

>>78046496
>Why do Britain and all ex-British colonies suck at soccer?

ftfy

Because we all invented or played better sports?

Soccer is played by feckless Socialists. British colonies were settled by cricketers and rugby players.

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>>78046496
Germany are current world champions tho

>>78046496
The best thing about soccer is a few times a year a little girls team takes away my disgusting amount of bottles.

>>78046831
Soccer is still by far the most popular sport in the UK though

Even in Africa, French African soccer player are generally better than ex-British African soccer players

>>78047859
Australia, New Zealand and Canada invented what?

>>78048365
Canada invented basketball, but since he mentioned better sports it probably does not count.

>>78048365
You're retarded if you don't know what sports Canadians invented. I can't help you.

>>78048365
Australia plays Aussie Rules and Rugby.

America plays variations of cricket and football.

New Zealand plays Rugby, regarded as the best Rugby players ever, ever, bar none.

Ireland plays GAA

British people (including Irish) are fiercely independent and creative.

>>78048347

It's the most popular sure but the people that like it are generally working class and never had any say on how the empire was run. Countries like Australia, South Africa Zimbabwe, New Zealand, India, West Indies, and all the hundreds of islands in the South Pacific are either Rugby nations or Cricket nations.

Soccer was only introduced to the world around the beginning of the 20th century.

Canada has Hockey, America has Baseball, Australia has AFL, NZ has rugby
and we all still play sokah anyway

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>>78048103
>the british royal family is german and changed the name of their house from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor in the middle of WW1

More like britcucks, amirite?haha

Because there's only 4.5 million of us, so it's hard to get a team from whatever percentage of the 2.25m male population that is homosexual.

>>78048472
American football has no origins in any British sport

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At least British Colonies are better than American colonies at soccer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wg9ox9F7Vw

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>>78048669

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>>78048472
>British people (including Irish)

>>78048669
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football#History
?

>>78048669
it's rugby with foward passes

>>78046496
Almost no one in America associates soccer with England. It's more of a Latin sport

>>78048754
Same fucking people, Scots and Welsh are Brits, they're practically the same as the Irish. Ethnic Brits are also the same as the Irish.

>>78048472
Doesn't change the fact that anglophones only succeed in their own sports if no other non-anglophone country decide to play it as well

>Murica invents baseball and exports it to central america
>beaners became better than them

>England invents Football and shares it with the world
>every other country/stateless nation/tribe/human settlement instantly became better than them

>England invents cricket and take it to south asia
>curry niggers became better than them

Really boils your tea

>>78048961

7-1

>>78048961
But the USA is still the best in basketball

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>>78048961
>Murica invents baseball
don't bloody think so

>>78048961
Rugby?

>>78048971
A vulcanic island with not enough population to fill Wembley knocked you out of a continental competition

>>78048994
Basketball isn't the number 1 sport even in the USA. What non-anglophonic country adopted Basketball as their number 1 sport, fucking Lithuania?

>>78049020
England, South Africa and New Zealand. They all speak english, it doesn't matter.

>>78046496

Ahh go nuke north korea and start world war 3

>>78048658
And the Royal Family in WW1 was related to the German, French, Russian and Austrian leaders, whats your point?

>>78046496
Britain and America are #1 at the only sport that matters: Imperialism

>>78048961
The only ball sport USA invented was basketball and netball. Everything else was invented by Britain.

>>78049178
we did it senpai we liberated the world
now everywhere can look like Detroit

>>78048961
>implying America is Anglo

We're a Germanic-Irish-Italian country

What an incredibly autistic topic. I want to bully you faggot nerds so much.

>>78049179
Basketball was invented by a Canadian (and therefore us).

Ruling the world takes up a lot of our time.

>>78046496

>Didn't England invent the sport?

Mexicans I know say Mexico invented it

>>78049210

He types, in English, the only language he knows.

>>78046831
Doesn't it have a lot to do with the fact that the majority of the "low level" colonial peoples were Irish/Scottish and rugby is generally more popular there?

>>78049210
Absolute madman

>>78046496
Soccer is for the poor and nigs. We exported cricket and rugby

>>78049173
Related via maternal lineage, it doesn't really matter at the end.

When a Habsburg princess married Dom Pedro I, their son, Dom Pedro II, was still only a Orléans-Braganza. Despite from his Habsburg jaw, but the beard hid it.

>>78049294
India and Kenya speak English too.

The US's biggest ancestry is German. Deal with it.

>>78049301

Ireland maybe but definitely not Scotland. In the UK rugby is seen more of a posh boy sport and you'd probably get laughed out of a city like Glasgow if you said you prefer rugby to football.

>>78049328

India and Kenya are commonwealth. The United States was founded by Anglo's which is the main difference.

>>78049374
Fun fact: You could eat a restaurant and sleep in a hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

What do you mean by "founded?"

>>78049395

The Founding Fathers were all born in either The Thirteen Colonies or the UK and it's from them which is the basis of your entire nation.

>>78049418
Shut up faggot, the language of the English court was French for like 300 years. Many of your monarchs are about as British as the Pakis.

>>78049455

Very good argument, I noticed you typed it in English.

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>>78049455
Fantastic American posting right here, one of the great intellectuals of this board.

>>78049210
In that case, you forgot Mexican and African too.

>>78049510
We have a lot of non-Mexican Spanish (as in from Spain, the place in Europe) influence in the USA

>>78046496
What non-Anglo team sports have actually become popular worldwide? Tennis?

>>78049213

Try it, see what you get

>>78049548
Soccer isn't Anglo?

>>78049529
i'd bet 54 canadian dollars that you have waaaay more mexican influence than spaniard influence

>>78049495
The French are more responsible for the English language than any inbred islander.

>>78049639

We'd be speaking French then wouldn't we?

>>78049301
Scots were the engineers, mid level, Irish were the scum

>>78049548
>be English
>invent sport
>be awful at all of them

>>78048510
Ice hockey was invented by Scots soldiers in Canada playing shinty on ice

All the colonies existed before the sport was codified in the late 1800s.
It's why Australia has Aussie Rules, North America have Grid iron etc

>>78049339
>In the UK rugby is seen more of a posh boy sport
Try saying that in Hull or Wigan about rugby league

>>78049210
OH GOD HAHA

>>78049932
No one wants to go to those shitholes.

>>78050023
My point is that union is the posh eton sport and league is the based working class northern sport.
The codes literally split because of class differences spilling into arguments about professionalism.

>>78047718
Darts?

>>78050061

kek

noncing means fucking / touching up, but you'd only use it in the context of a paedophile (also called a nonce).

>>78046496
England spread rugby and cricket to its colonies before soccer. So the US prefers NFL (modified version of rugby), Australia/India/Pakistan prefer cricket, NZ prefers rugby, etc. .

>>78046496
Which non-Anglo sports are popular?

>>78046496
because nobody cares about a third world monkey sport

>>78052595
Tennis.
Golf is Scottish, but they're Anglo too, even if they like to pretend they aren't.

>>78052806

Tennis in itself is still only popular due to Britain. Royal Tennis, which was the historic french version was very different, it was played inside and you could bounce the ball off the walls, more like squash. Tennis as we know it today, Lawn Tennis, was first played in Britain.

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>>78046496

*bad engrish accent intensifies*

I du know gov'na, we dun suck at all

>>78046831
Thanks for introducing nothing to us, dad!

>>78053404
You got rounders (girls version of Cricket) that turned into baseball and Rugby that turned into HandEgg.

because we have other football codes

>>78046496
>expecting descendants of Anglo scum to be good at sports

>>78048961
Umm rugby and cricket sweetie

>>78048365
Australia rules football sweetie

>>78053558
So like yourself then?

>>78053602
I'm Black

>>78053558
yeah we are thanks

>>78048961
lots of countries play hockey

>>78053625
So one of your ancestors got raped by an Anglo at some point then.

>>78053625
Yeah I'm Hispanic. What the fuck do I have to do with Anglo scum?

>>78053714
Nothing, but you aren't American and never will be.

>>78053714
THIS>>78053739

>>78046496
At least the Spanish, French and Portuguese taught their colonials how to play footy.

Non-anglo foreigners often think Anglo colonies invented their own sports/chose to play other sports because they suck at soccer, but that's wrong. The reason the US, Aus, Canada, NZ aren't soccer countries is because sports older than soccer managed to establish themselves first.

The first exports to the colonies were bat-and-ball and "eggball" games (rugby is the mother code of ALL football codes).

During that time (1840-70s), regions in England and in the colonies developed their own forms of football games from rugby that varied wildly between regions and schools. First Aussie Rules game was played in 1858. Mob football (an antecedent of rugby) dates back to the early 1800s in the US, with the first American football game played in 1869 (although that 1869 version doesn't look like anything today). In Canada, the antecedent of Canadian football was played in 1869. The first International soccer game under Association rules was played in 1871.

And baseball was already established as a pro sport in the US by this time, while cricket was going strong in Australia. Ice Hockey would make in roads in Canada by 1875.

The sports landscape in the former colonies already had too much history and was too crowded for soccer to take over like it did in South America and Western Europe, who don't have bat-and-ball and egg ball sport (aside from Argentina and France with rugby) histories, so soccer found fertile ground to grow quickly.

>>78053981
AND this meme about the US being Anglo - when did that start?

>>78053494
>You got rounders

Baseball didn't descend from rounders. Don't know why Brits continue to believe that.

>However, the assertion that rounders is the direct ancestor of baseball is more problematic, for chronological reasons: the earliest mention of the game, by that name at least, dates only to 1828, almost a century after the earliest mentions of "base ball" and well after "base ball" was being played in America.

All bat and games evolved from a variety of folk games played in the middle ages.

>>78053981
good post
aussie rules is basically an amalgamation of rugby and games the abos made up using the rugby ball and it developed because cricketers wanted something to stay fit during winter when you couldn't play cricket

>>78054014
>AND this meme about the US being Anglo - when did that start?

I agree that is a sort of meme. The Spanish controlled more of the continent than the English at one point, the Dutch settled New York first, Scandinavians settled the Mid-Northwest, but Anglo culture won out for the most part, from language to religion (Protestantism over Catholicism).

But we are a melting pot. Have been since the beginning.

Soccer is the working class povvo sport. It was spread around the world by British merchant sailors i.e. povvos

The colonists were more middle class.

We're a basketball country as well. What is British about that?

>>78054081

Yeah. People think soccer sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus as the biggest International sport from day one, while we all scurried away to our domestic sports.

There was no such thing as "international sports" back then like we know it today, and regions and schools within England itself often had "code wars." It was a source of pride for a school to have their own "football code."

It was a time of a lot of experimentation, so naturally that mentality would carry over to the former colonies. Harvard and Princeton, for instance, had different football codes at one point.

>>78049001
that's like saying you invented American Football because it evolved from rugby. It became an entirely different sport with new rules at a certain point just like baseball became a different sport from rounders

>>78054252
Basketball is Canadian, therefore British.

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>>78046496
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>78049707
Not so fast yank

>>78046831
We had both rugby and cricket introduced by the english, people here just never got into it.

>>78046496
This is implying that England is exempt from sucking at soccer.

>>78048394
Huh, I didn't know Lawrence, Kansas was in Canada. Neeto.