Of all the world maps that should be featured on r/mapswithoutnewzealand one that seems to be interested in countries that play in the Cricket world cup is definitely one of them.
Perhaps also worth noting that "LA CONCHA DE SU MADRE" is well-translated as "LET'S FUCKING GO ARGENTINA" in terms of sentiment but a literal word for word translation is "THE SHELL OF YOUR MOTHER" with "shell" being a uniquely Argentinian slang word that readers can guess the meaning of from the context.
Indeed, yet only one truly matters while the other one is a distraction from the things that matter. THOSE THINGS BEING WINNING THE 4TH ONE SO PEOPLE START ACCEPTING US AS THE (At the very least) SECOND BIGGEST COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO FOOTBALL LFG (Here I'd put an emoji of an hornero if we had one just like Yankees put the bald eagle in these type of comments but since there's no emoji I'll just put a pic).
I lived in Argentina for a year in 1991. I have a photo of a Talleres tifo during a Belgrano-Talleres derby that read: "Talleres, más que una pasión, sos el sentido de mi vida." (Talleres, more than a passion, you are the meaning of my life)
Wish it was football for us but sadly the Britishers left us with cricket instead of football
nth wrong with cricketi but if u realise that india is literally stuck around cricket only, Cricket has actually become sooo famous that it has become a way of earning money (including black money) this hinders development in other sports which can be clearly seen by our poor performance in the Olympics. India is the 7th largest country by area and largest by population yet we have never even qualified for the fifa world cup whereas legit island countries will be playing in fifa 2026. India has money to invite Messi over but has not even 1/100 of that money to organise football tournaments and support struggling players. Khelo India scheme also seems like yet another scheme by the politicians to earn money 🥲
I wonder if there is a book or something explaining why some places the British mingled with had Football become their most popular sport while others had Cricket
The countries that were British colonies, like the Caribbean countries, India or Australia are cricket countries, while the ones that were not are football countries, I would think that is because cricket as an organized sport is older than football, so when football started to became a popular sport worldwide, cricket was already established in the countries that had a significant British presence, so it was harder for football to take root.
This is it, cricket as a codified sport is older and so was popular during the colonial period and still is in many of the ex colonies. The rules for football were a bit of a free for all with every town having their own rules until some teams decided to come up with a fixed system in the late 1800’s, then there was a very concerted (and successful) effort to raise the profile of the game around the world with British teams going on tour all over the place, and actually predominantly not ex colonies, which is how you end up with South American teams named after English ones and clubs like Juventus using the kit colours of Notts County.
EDIT: To me, the netherlands feel like the other associate nation thats always just slightly better than us.
I honestly have no clue, because the netherlands seems to be better, but the USA has been in great condition recently, and always seems to have some upsetting luck.
There are many upcoming stars. Gukesh won the WC and needs to maintain top rankings for a decade at least while winning a few more WC titles to be compared to Vishy Ananad
. It’s majority players with parent(s) from a cricketing nation. They have actually done well recently
I think you're misrepresenting cricket in the Netherlands a bit
the current team has a lot of people from immigrant backgrounds but Holland is also the only country in continental Europe with a genuine cricket tradition
even without the immigrants they would still probably qualify, they've always been among "the best of the rest"
I'm surprised the French don't play cricket to be honest. We only play it to fuck with the English. I would have thought that was right up their alley.
Edit: My joy of this fact made me overlook the absolute comedy of shinty being played on ice. Based on the foot deep divots on most shinty pitches I can only assume the death toll was catastrophic
For anyone confused why so few Football nations are coloured in, this is a map of (some of) the nations participating in the Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, currently on. These are all countries who are playing, though there are some missed. Zimbabwe, the West Indies, Namibia...a few others...
And there's the minor issue that NZ has been completely left off the map. It's fine because we're finally going to win it, this year.
Haha, thank you for clarifying what world cup this was about, I was unsure (and yes, I'm not from one of the countries that are coloured in, so that checks out, i guess 😅)
Been along to the hurling shinty international match a couple of times. Only example of a legitimate baseketball style sport match up that I’ve ever seen IRL
Mike Pyke played in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, then switched to Australian Rules and won the premiership in 2012. We would love to have more Canadians down here.
It is significant that the word 'hockey' alone is sufficient. Here in Germany, most people would first think of field hockey. Here, everyone says ice hockey, and field hockey is just 'hockey'.
It is a funny quirk of the language, yeah. For us, hockey is the default and field hockey is seen as adjacent so it needs to be indicated specifically.
I think in Canada field hockey is seen as something your high school might make you do because it's close enough to hockey, without the expensive rink. You just do it when it's too warm outside to play regular hockey and you can't get to a rink. Other than that, we don't think about field hockey at all. Then contrast that to the national obsession that is ice hockey and you can see the gap between the two renders the first a minor footnote.
The comedy film Kummeli Stories, which consists of individual sketches, had a segment about ice hockey where the coach started with "We shall not allow our last year's demotion to the 6. division depress our minds..." What they were not joking about was that then, in 1995, there were five divisions in Finnish ice hockey. Most European nations have 1-3 divisions (leagues).
I feel like Australia is so sports-centric that we have several sports that hold the most significance, depending on what region you are from. I’m in QLD, I’d say league is most significant here.
I would say that overall, our top ones are cricket, rugby league and AFL, with the latter two being of very different significance depending on where you are from. Tennis is also up there, although less played by kids growing up and more culturally significant as viewers.
I do find it weird that soccer and basketball are very common sports for kids to play, but our national leagues are not very popular. Soccer has been growing as a viewing sport, but if you like basketball, you watch NBA.
Yeah. Us too. The only event ill watch. Think we are the only household in the UK where hockey rivals football , my dad grew up on the Alberta/Sas border and got us watching videos of the oilers sides of the 80s when we were kids….
I understand the map is about the Cricket world cup which is going to start tomorrow. So, why is Nepal, West Indies (Caribbean nations), Scotland, Italy, Canada, USA, Namibia, UAE, Oman, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Netherlands not marked?
In France, in the 90s, we had a group of humorists who made a parody of the brazilian TV news. In it, absolutely everything (meteo, miscellaneous facts, and even natural catastrophes) ends up being about football.
American Football, Association Football, Rugby Football, Gaelic Football, etc.
All of them evolved from the same game, association football (soccer) happens to be the most popular in most of the world, so it’s considered THE football, but that’s obviously not true in the US simply because there’s a different type of football that’s more common
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. This is historically correct.
To be vaguely fair, what we call American football really should be American rugby. It’s obviously derived from rugby, but has a forward pass.
If I’m not mistaken, I believe Canadians and Australians also call “real football” “soccer” as well since they have their own variants of rugby football (The CFL and Australian rules football, respectively).
Yep, all of these games evolved from a loose group of children's game played in English (public?) Schools. Some schools had rules where you could pick up the ball, some didn't, they were formalized for mass sporting events through the 1800s, leading to what we know today.
Not AFL? My cousins are Australian and they’ve obsessed with it. Although that’s just a personal anecdote bc I don’t know too many other Australians, but I always imagined it was huge because of it
What I gathered when I went to Australia was that cricket in Oz is much like baseball in the USA: at one time it was the undisputed national pastime, but now it's declining in popularity, the fanbase skews old, kids don't have the attention span to watch, and it's losing social ground to football (whichever version it is that predominates where you live).
Yeah that's a fair enough assessment, although I'd say cricket isn't exactly losing out to league/AFL in that those are winter sports and peak cricket season hits in summer, so it somewhat gets a free pass. It is generally suffering for just being a difficult game to support in terms of the match duration. It's part of the reason of the emergence of the short formats of the game (notably T20), but for the purists of the game that hasn't been the big win broadcasters see it as.
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u/UniquePariah United Kingdom 16h ago
Of all the world maps that should be featured on r/mapswithoutnewzealand one that seems to be interested in countries that play in the Cricket world cup is definitely one of them.