Which country has the best Goodplayer/population ratio?
Thinking about Portugal, Argentina or Netherlands
Which country has the best Goodplayer/population ratio?
Thinking about Portugal, Argentina or Netherlands
Also Uruguay if you count murdeball as a skill
croatia or uruguay probably
obviously croatia and uruguay you dumb bastard
If high = best, then Croatia.
Worst would be us.
uruguay
>Worst would be us
Not even close, China and India are far far worse
>Worst would be us
china and india are miles ""ahead"" of you on that front. pakistan, bangladesh, and indonesia are pretty grim too
Australia. Seriously. Kalac(Ac Milan), Mark Swatzer(Fulham, Chelsea), Mark Boznic(Man utd, Chelsea), Mat Ryan(Brighton), Langerak(Dortmund), Brad Jones (Liverpool) ect
Half of our national team isn't even portuguese.
>25M population
Any country in western europe has a better ratio than yours
Uruguay
Uruguay
pretty sure he was joking pal. still, they do produce a lot of good goalkeepers for a country that only takes the sport semi-seriously
It's India
China is 100x better than India
How are India and China so useless at producing professional athletes?
It's Uruguay lads didn't know they were only 3 millions
>India
No culture of street sport as too much poo on the ground
>China
Can't git gud if you're working 30 hour days at the age of seven
Yeah we do produce way more quality GK's then we do outfield players, that's for sure. Prob because AFL and rugby are similar to the skills required for a gk rather than an outfield player. Pretty sure Mitch Langerak for example grew up playing rugby. GK is similar to playing AFL an rugby.
What aren't they useless at? Beeing poor?
Indians have cricket tho
probably to do with stifling, hierarchical social cultures that're obsessed with careers/wealth/etc
kosovo
I think china just doesn't care about sport their most viewed sport is unironically table tennis
Overall: Uruguay
In the past: Scotland, Hungary and Czechia
In recent times: Croatia and Belgium
Outside of Europe and South America: Senegal
They're weakmind personified
Serbia
yeah. they do care, it's just top-down state-enforced care, which doesn't really work in sports the rest of the world takes seriously
Slovenia, Portugal and Uruguay come to mind.
Germany
Think it's their inability to work as a team tbqh
Belgium obviously
USA for sure
LUTATUM
ET
VICTORIUM
uruguay you dumb frog
Our population is too big to win this since it's easier to be some tiny meme nation and produce 2 good players than be us and still need to produce 7 per generation.
Regardless I think the Netherlands is just good at punching above it's weight.
Iceland. 300,000 population yet still qualifies for the Euros and WC.
Croatia and Uruguay hands down.
As for Portugal, we got 10M people plus some 2M diaspora, mostly in France. Plus a few more ex-colonials eager to get a portuguese passport.
chinese weightlifters are literally saiyans irl
Croatia and Uruguay anything else is objectively incorrect
Wales & Iceland
India has too much poo.
Chinamen are just roided up, they have no skill.
Also Asia overall is ass at football, southasia being the worst.
3 quarters of the Welsh squad is English
You are gay
Croatia, by far
Parofgay
Guernsey
population of fuck all
but had Matt le Tissier
How can you have a population of 3M and get Gimenez Godin Cavani Suarez and Forlan overlapping ?
iceland's NT does incredibly well for the size of their country, but I don't think they actually produce a particularly huge number of professional players. the ones they do produce just work well together.
This
wonder if its a coincidence that the US is similar in both regards
Netherlands
Not even close desu
San Marino. They have by far the most CL winners per capita.
the basque
Yeah. We are similar. Just had a read of this:
>Australia shares a reputation for producing good quality goalkeepers with another nation for whom soccer is not the number one sport, the United States.In both countries football codes which favour catching and running (rugby league and union here, gridiron in the US) are the most popular, yet the US has, in recent times, developed a number of goalkeepers who played at the highest levels: Kasey Keller, Tim Howard and Brad Friedel all had long spells in the English Premier League, for example.