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Similarly, China is notoriously terrible at international football, despite an enormous population and it being a reasonably popular sport.
by nmfisher 4y ago
Similarly, China is notoriously terrible at international football, despite an enormous population and it being a reasonably popular sport.
- smcl 4y agoYou're right, China is another peculiar outlier on the other side of the spectrum. I wondered whether the reason is that they've got pretty solid pipeline that reliably turns kids into elite Olympic athletes, so maybe potential world class footballers (+ funding) are diverted into those programs instead.