sanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 2 days agoHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todayimagemessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1417arrow-down19
arrow-up1408arrow-down1imageHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square100fedilink
minus-squareThalion@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down6·1 day agoYou realize that pretending to not know what the most watched sporting event in the world is just makes you seem like an idiot, right?
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·1 day agoMany sports have a ‘world cup’.
minus-squarestarchylemming@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoall of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets sadly
minus-squareKillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachtslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoBut only the USA has a world cup with local teams
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-224 hours 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-up2·24 hours agoIt clearly comes from the fact that to Americans the world is just the US and Canada
minus-squaresqw@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·15 hours agoUSA has its World Series (baseball, and not open to the world). What’s the closed USA world cup?
You realize that pretending to not know what the most watched sporting event in the world is just makes you seem like an idiot, right?
Many sports have a ‘world cup’.
Only one has ‘The’ 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?