>1257 days to Qatar 2022
>Already six NT lost the possibility to enter the competition
Why Pakistan, that has 190 million inhabitants can not form a competent team of 11 people?
WC
Elijah Butler
Nolan Brown
What about india? Have they played yet?
Jeremiah Wright
over 70% of their population are inbreds which is the highest percentage of inbreds population out of any other country, now add to the fact that football is very underdeveloped and you got yourself a recipe for the worst footballing nation that has a large population
Nolan Edwards
Because they don't care. Cricket, hockey, polo, striving against polytheism, these are the sports of Pakistan.
Nicholas James
>India qualified for the World Cup only once, by default in 1950 when all of its scheduled opponents withdrew. However, the All India Football Federation (AIFF), the apex body of football in India, could not send the team to play, missing a historic opportunity.
>Since then, India has been struggling to register its presence in the world of football. Several of India’s neighbors have bested it at the game, a disappointing sign for a country as large as India, which should be able to field at least some talent. In South Asia’s regional championship last year, Afghanistan handily defeated India.
Nicholas Rivera
Sri Lanka is not disqualified yet.
>HONG KONG (Reuters) - Macau have decided not to send their team to contest the second leg of the World Cup qualifying first-round match against Sri Lanka on Tuesday due to security concerns.
>The Macau Football Association issued a statement on Facebook on Saturday saying it had asked FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation to switch the match to a neutral venue but that request had yet to be accepted.
>“Due to the recent terrorist attack in Sri Lanka and for the sake of the team’s personal safety, we have been in contact with FIFA, AFC and Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) to discuss and negotiate that this match to be played in neutral country,” the statement said.
>“MFA will have to put our players’ personal safety as a priority. And, in the view of the fact that we cannot guarantee the safety of the team while they are in Sri Lanka and we cannot afford to take the risk to put our players’ lives in danger.”
Source uk.reuters.com
>Kuala Lumpur: The Asian Football Confederation has been informed today by the Macau Football Association that their national team will not travel to Sri Lanka for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 1 second leg match scheduled for Colombo tomorrow.
>The AFC will now refer this matter to FIFA and the appropriate AFC committees.
Source the-afc.com
Kayden Barnes
Afghans are a whole bunch of chads. They'll dominate whatever sports they take an interest in.
Joshua Kelly
This, they don’t even get the right to send their teams to any AFC club competition yet their league isn’t bad
Wyatt Garcia
K I N O
Luis Morris
India only cares about cricket
Brody Adams
Do pakis and indians in Bongland even care about the premier league or do they just watch cricket?
Joseph Martin
You are not qualifying for the next WC either
Cooper Morales
I don´t even care if Argentina qualify, i enjoy the WC
Argentina qualifying for the next WC just add more joy to the show for me
Luke Reyes
They only care about cricket but because of their large population, you will still get at least a million of them that are into this sport
Lucas Walker
Lol What year is this from? They won like once and that also through their import monkeys from Europe. Since then we beat them so bad they ran away to other zone altogether lol
Ayden Morales
>Pakistan are ranked 200th in the world out of 211 nations
>below such footballing giants as Gibraltar, Saychelles, Monserrat and Samoa
That's levels of shit beyond just 'they prefer cricket and hockey'.
Easton Wilson
why do AFC play their qualifiers so early compared to other confederations ?
Robert Ortiz
And We're exactly 100 places above them
Carter Russell
Tbf, Gibraltar, Seychelles and Montserrat probably have a much more dedicated football fanbase while pakis would just gloryhunt on english teams
Isaiah Perez
Why India dont qualify anyways?
Christian Diaz
stop making fun of Monserrat
Nicholas Long
They're the #5 country in the world by population, how can they be so bad ?
Ryder Watson
They're literally inbred incels
Logan Miller
Barely any monetary incentive for people to actually pursue it seriously. Regional level or State level players still have to work regular 8-10hr jobs to support themselves. You have to understand that sports is a way for people to escape poverty and most athletes come from generally poor communities. Sports quota Jobs all got gobbled up by cricket or athletics or boxing etc so Why waste time and money doing something that won't secure your future? Football has a far longer history in India, clubs older than 100-120yrs exist but they don't have any money. most of the sponsorship money went to cricket so obviously it's a much more lucrative profession for people.
Henry Parker
Cricket occupies the position in India or subcontinent in general what football does in Uruguay or Brazil. Indian cricket team captain Virat kohli made 25 million dollars from ads and endorsements, compare That with our football team captain Sunil Chhetri (second highest active scorer in international football after Cristiano) and probably the biggest Indian footballer ever is on a 350k salary.
Evan Wright
their nations are only just being exposed to football
the rapid wave of eastern football superfandom hasn't been around long enough for there to have been a generational shift producing quality footballers
Jose Garcia
Could Argentina form a competitive cricket or american football team? No they wouldnt, population size has shit to do with how good a country is at a sport, pakis and other Brownie asians lack the interest and /or funding to be any good at football, big fucking deal
Jacob Flores
U wot m8? We've been playing football long before those roaches had heard of football. Durand cup (1888) is the third oldest football tournament like fucking ever
Josiah Rogers
You've literally had a league system since 1996, and we're not even talking about India we're talking about pakistan
AND having one footy cup per year doesn't mean you have a long standing national football tradition does it?
Noah Reed
We used to be pretty decent in the 50s and 60s up until 70s. But we lost that initial headstart when cricket took over after we BTFO the English in their own posh sport. We may not have the money but Unlike the chinks we actually have had a decent history of the sport. We have half a century of neglect to make-up which isn't going to be easy at all but we'll get there before next century for sure.
Carson Mitchell
You can see India in the next World Cup?
Nathan Hughes
Football was never a nation wide thing. It has always existed in pockets like Bengal or goa and kerala in the south. We're too big to even go from one place to another. And back then Connectivity wasn't really conducive to spread the game either. Cricket got a head start via satellite television and after the world cup just exploded in its reach. Yet despite all the hurdles still We've more international pedigree. We've more Asian gold medals, we finished 4th in the Olympics which is more than I can say for Pakistan.
In the next "century" for sure
Christopher Evans
Based Indiabro telling the truth
Christian Diaz
>neville d souza
Wut? Did the portugeese made it to India?
Also Why is there any hurry to become a football nation bro, you already have a sport that utterly dominate and brings money, thats more than what most countries can brag about, fuck the everyone have to play footie meme
Colton Gray
>Sunil Chhetri
>Nepali/sikkimese
>Neville D'souza
>Goan catholics
>Football was never a nation wide thing. It has always existed in pockets like Bengal or goa and kerala in the south.
Looks like football is a sport for minorities in India
Carter Clark
Yeah, we made it all the way to Japan
Sri Lanka was a colony, Macau was Portuguese till 1999, just to name a few places
Christian Davis
Damn that''s nice
Justin Butler
Look at his mug. Does he look Portuguese to you? Yeah sure Goa was a Portuguese colony. and we tolerated it for a while till they started getting funny ideas and we sent them packing crying to their mãe.
Why not? Football is the world game. It's fucking great! We're only making up for lost time.
India is much bigger place and more diverse than you think. Chettri is an army brat. Christianity has existed in India since 53ad, long before it kicked off in Europe.
Julian Roberts
Andrew Bailey
I was saying it for the name, none of this filipinos named Hernández look spanish but is obvious they made it there and leaved enough of a Mark in that sense
Benjamin Wood
Also: Congrats to this guys