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Most Popular Sport By Country Of Origin

Rugby union and football are far more popular in Ireland than whatever meme they claim, they just lie about it. Sort of like Canadians claiming they don’t just consume exclusively American stuff. A Reddit nation if there ever was one

>>149646918 (OP)
Football was codified by britain, not created by it

>>149647052
This and Australia probably a similar story?

>>149646918 (OP)
mad how england sportscolonized the world
>>149647216
colony cope

do you /int/oids just look at everything and see a flag? nobody in the real world give a single fuck lmao

>>149646918 (OP)
based anglos

?

>>149646918 (OP)
America, Canada and Australia are also British

>>149646918 (OP)
The sun never sets on the British Empire.

>>149646918 (OP)
It would be more soulful to say Russia invented and its national sport is Gymnastics imo. Then this would also include Ukraine, and every other Eastern European country I am too lazy to name.

>>149648737
The mongol empire, the second largest after the british empire, except they conquered real populated area instead of wastelands to inflate their stats.

>>149647052
Gaelic football compared to rugby and soccer (as individual sports) has;
>higher adult player participation
>higher youth player participation
>higher attendance
>higher club membership numbers
>a wider reach (more local clubs)
>a bigger stadium
>larger crowds both altogether and in single matches
>more of a following in the public conscious

The only possible metrics either soccer or rugby could be better in is tv viewership and fans travelling overseas, the latter of which is obvious for obvious reasons and the former if true is only indicative of a better tv show or watching what’s on

>>149647052
The first sentence is simply not true.

In short: There are only 7 real countries

Am I on /int/?

Lets be honest the American, Canadian, and Australian sports were all invented by Anglos too, just with a funny looking passport.

>>149649826
sp is just int but quantitative

>>149649172
he was asking what sport you magic carpet mong

>>149649913
baseball, ice hockey, and possibly victorian rules were all directly influenced by if not outright derivatives of irish sports. Actual anglo sport which gridiron football is from is rugby. Basketball was by a Canadian who happened to be in America at the time.

I say possibly victorian rules because it’s more likely that gaelic football is directly influenced by it rather than the other way around

>>149647273
Nope

>>149646918 (OP)
basketball is not the most popular sport in china
baseball is an english sport

>>149652700
Basketball actually is the most popular sport in China

>>149652700
baseball is Irish rounders not English rounders

> Bhutanese sport

?

>>149647216
Well then it has no country of origin because kicking a spherical object has definitely been a thing since prehistoric times.

>>149649172
>wastelands to inflate their stats.
Yes, we know about the mongol empire, don't worry.

>>149657777
archery

>>149646918 (OP)
Soccer is not the most popular sport in Flipland

>>149657969

The Philippines is colored red for an American sport, either baseball or basketball.

>>149647273
no, soccer's not popular down here except as something for kids to do on the weekend. cricket is more popular.

>>149647216
It was created by Britain, period. Why do mongs such as yourself keep deluding yourself otherwise?

>>149649172
true that we brought civilisation to backwards shitholes, shame we missed yours

>>149658104
basketball, which is a Canadian game

>>149658454
soccer is English, football is ancient

>>149658454
the overwhelming british presence in most sports causes a lot of hurt feelings amongst the wogs.

there's a film called united passions which goes into this
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi667332633/

you can practically taste the pure seethe

Actually chinese monks created a predecessor of football.

Maybe /sp/ should change the flags to continents

>>149660768
Enjoy the rape gangs cuck, you are not making out of this one, ever.

>>149661366
absolutely BOILING

Of all the sports to care about, short third worlders landed on the one that they can never be good at.

>>149651259
Nope what? Rugby and Cricket are both popular there

>>149658409
I said it's probably a similar story. Rugby and cricket are British sports.

>>149649172
Vgh the famously densely populated asiastic steppes

>>149646918 (OP)
Holy hell... My 20 years of watching NFL/NCAAF finally shows some result lel

>>149646918 (OP)
I take pride in my country liking a sport as shitskin-free as ice hockey

>>149661766
Memes aside which sport is actually the most popular in Estonia? Is it basketball or hockey?

>>149661718
cricket is either french or irish, it’s not english

Let's get down let's get down to business give you one more night one more night to get this we've had a million million nights just like this so let's get down let's get down to business mama please don't worry 'bout me cause I'm about to let my heart speak my friends keep telling me to leave this so let's get down let's get down to business

>>149657902
Archery wasn't invented in Bhutan lil bro

>>149646918 (OP)
The Japanese started playing baseball in the 19th century.
Before WW2, there were already professional baseball leagues and the sport was popular in Japan.

>>149662917
Where was archery codified? And is that the type of archery they play in Bhutan or do they have their own rules?

>>149663052
I looked it up and they do have their own rules (smaller targets and greater distances than international competitions like the Olympics). But idk if that really counts as a unique sport; FIBA's basketball rules are a bit different from the NBA's, but they're not considered different sports.

>>149648737
Mounted rape

>All-Ireland Inter-County
Regular attendance in the tens of thousands, with semi-finals >60,000 and the finals selling out Croke park (82,000).
Viewership regularly in the hundreds of thousands, passing a million for the final and pretty much the only thing apart from rugby internationals and the Late Late Toy Show that bring in any big money for RTÉ.
>All-Ireland Club Championships
Attendance for finals in the tens of thousands for matches between literal villages, towns and suburbs (which haven't been helped by the GAA making the event a secondary affair).
Strong viewership despite it being broadcast on TG4 in irish.
>League of Ireland
Only one match with comparable attendance, when they shove teams into the Aviva and market the shit out of it.
Normal attendance is National League standard.
Not even close to the GAA's viewership despite it being broadcast on TWO stations.
Clubs losing money despite record revenues.
>URC
Attendances only comparable to the GAA in inter-provincial matches, otherwise the equivalent of lesser inter-county GAA matches.
Barely viewed except for inter-provincial matches, despite again being on TWO channels.
Munster-Leinster couldn't even sell out Croke Park despite being made out to be the biggest match between them ever.
Leinster couldn't even.sell out the Aviva for ERC QFs OR SFs. Nor could the sell out Croke Park for the URC final (half empty, less than Dublin's football QF).
The only rugby (and indeed football) the compares to the GAA in terms of popularity are the internationals and even then it's only the big internationals for rugby (the football team couldn't sell out the Aviva for their lives). The square root of fuck all people in Ireland care about rugby matches against Fiji, Georgia or Italy outside the World Cup.

The British are autistic and love to codify sports so they're more civilised.

>>149660637
Basketball originated in Massachusetts, USA. This isn't controversial, it was codified upon creation.

You have a better argument for American Football being Canadian, since the first rugby style football match in America was between an American university (Harvard) and a Canadian university (McGill). I personally would say that it was still Rugby then however, and it didn't become American football until 1880's rule changes.

>>149662912
why do brazilians hate musiala so much? he wasn't even alive during 7-1

>>149646918 (OP)
South Korea is a tricky one.

Soccer has highest participation, and the national soccer team is very popular, and EPL is somewhat popular. However, the domestic baseball league is way more popular than the domestic soccer league, and is the most popular pro league in the country.

>>149646918 (OP)
If you go by adult participation USA is a British sport (golf).
I think for adult participation we're at:
1. Golf
2. Pickleball
3. Tennis

>>149664203
Wtf is happening there, it's like a zombie movie

>>149646918 (OP)
Ukrainian sport (drone combat) needs to be added to the map.

>>149664432
That's mob/medieval footy.

I think you're undervaluing pickup basketball and bowling

>>149646918 (OP)
>leafsport
uhh swetie.... hockey is american sport for like 30 years.

>>149649172
>instead of wasteland
>it’s all tundra and desert
>empire collapses
>left behind no architecture or language or anything of note

>>149646918 (OP)
what goes on in bhutan

>>149664427
I have to assume basketball is more common than those, albeit at a less organized level.

Basketball is the most popular sport here every zoomer is playing it

>>149664998
Yugoslavia used to be really good at the Olympics, so not really surprising.

>>149664764
>left behind no architecture or language or anything of note
One in 200 people alive today descended from Genghis Khan

>>149646918 (OP)
When did basketball overtake hockey in Canada?

Even as a Canadian it's hard to justify calling hockey a Canadian sport when it has so much roots in European sport culture. Modern hockey rules were formalized in Montreal but it was already been played for centuries before that.

>>149664851
stays in bhutan

>>149646918 (OP)
Based Ireland and Mongolia, archery isn't bhutanese

>>149663086
It depends whether they’d independently codified Bhutan archery as a sport itself or if they adapted the Olympic archery rulesets

>>149667707
By that logic soccer is not british/english

>>149663052
In MY country we shoot MY arrows!

>>149661366
I went to belgium recently, don't kid yourself

>>149664387
broccoli hair

>>149651056
first reply best reply

Morrocans, please get your shit together

>>149658454
I had sex with your mother.

>>149667483
fake reddit history there is no basis for this and no one ever did any tests its one of those internet myths from 2005 still around today. Also not the point.

>>149664203
lol, why do brits get so violent over nonsensical shit? When there are thousands of propah pakis to fight

>>149661701
not as popular as afl

>>149660829
>predecessor
a sport played with feet and ball and with the oldest existing ruleset. No direct line there, sorry.

*cough*

>>149673655
where's germany?

>>149673655
How does Switzerland rule football?
Austria rules cricket, Rugby is ruled by NZ and SA with the irrb being British. Tennis has Wimbledon but unfortunately hasn't had an English champ is decades.
What does Switzerland have to do with MMA or basketball?

>>149673655
Boxings two biggest promoters are British and the only organisation that matters is the WBC.

>>149660637
Its not a Canadian game.

>>149651128
American football was created in the 1860s. It looked sort of like a bastardized rugby, but it really came from a proto sport that would be unrecognizable today. You are repeatedly mistaken ITT

>>149674704
I think this is a list of where the headquarters of each sport's international organization is located.

>>149664427
You can tell this is a sound methodology because pickle ball is definitely the second most popular sport here

>>149673655
Football isn't just England, it's all the Home Nations and their FAs. FIFA (Switzerland) is on the board too yeah.