sanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 8 days agoHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todayimagemessage-square103linkfedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down18
arrow-up1414arrow-down1imageHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square103linkfedilink
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·8 days agoMany sports have a ‘world cup’.
minus-squarestarchylemming@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 days agoall of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets sadly
minus-squareKillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachtslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 days agoBut only the USA has a world cup with local teams
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoI was about to post an erm ackshually but I checked my facts. An urban myth holds the name “World Series” came from a putative sponsorship by the New York World newspaper. The earliest such claim found by Snopes was made in 1991
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoIt clearly comes from the fact that to Americans the world is just the US and Canada
minus-squaresqw@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·7 days agoUSA has its World Series (baseball, and not open to the world). What’s the closed USA world cup?
Many sports have a ‘world cup’.
all of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets
sadly
But only the USA has a world cup with local teams
I was about to post an erm ackshually but I checked my facts.
It clearly comes from the fact that to Americans the world is just the US and Canada
USA has its World Series (baseball, and not open to the world). What’s the closed USA world cup?
Only one has ‘The’ World Cup