yes, i am right. i live in kerala state,and here, football is more popular than cricket.when u just walk through the beaches here in early morning, u can see youths playing football and not cricket.. why, many of them including me likes football than cricket. even we used to taunt our friends who talks about cricket and they shut their mouth. cricket is not dominent here, the indian football federation shoul note the popularity here, and should do things for the good of football. cricket is dead here, or will soon die, replaced by football. note thet...
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football is really popular in all parts of Bangladesh. especially in rural areas and villages. but unfortunately India and Bangladesh are not in the standards of  international football. so its cricket for us
447016
Yes, Yes. \n1. As it seems to  become arranged.\n2. It is not most popular Game in the World. Only then called British colony playing Cricket.\n3. It's rules and set-up arranged to facilitate the Empire, where only two players play i.e. one baller and one batsman. To collect the ball, require 10 man (Like servants of Empire). 10 players sitting in the rest room, wastage of manpower and resources.\n4. One Game taking 1 to 5 days. Which is also wastage of time by 26 men.(incl. Umpire). And no. of lacs people watching and westing the time. If only 1 crore people watching the game for 8 hours only, means 8 crore manpower hours are wasted. By this much manpower, any productive or developing task can be achieved.
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INDIA is generally NOT INTERESTED in football as much as cricket, hockey... bit like the Americans who loves their brand of football, baseball, basketball.\n\nFurthermore INDIAN youths prefer to concentrate on their education to increase their job prospect and improve their lives. Sports don't pay well unless you're some kind of superstar sports person.\n\nThe very poor or not educated will have little access to playing sports which is a luxury they cannot afford. Also INDIAN government / state authorities do very little to promote football. India seldom participate even in ASIAN football tournaments. So India football standard is very low. You may have the talents but you must also provide opportunities and expert training to develop the potential talents. Unless INDIA begin to do this India will never ever be good enough for the World Cup.
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Because soccer or I shall say football is one of the most played games in the entire world, except USA. \n\nThe world is hooked on it, just like americans watch superbowl and would kill someone if anyone would try to stop them. Hence, football puts the fighting on the field with 22 players.\n\nIts an awesome sport if you play professionaly. I spent 12 years playing it, its awesome.\n\nFootball is diplomacy with balls!
294123
Football is the most popular sport in the world and played by more than 250 nations. So it is no doubt that World Cup in Germany is most happening thing in the world right now.\nEverybody around the world would be interested to know what is happening there.
330291
Ofcourse... cricket there is no game intresting as the cricket is,,,,football is also a good game but i prefer circket to watch and i enjoy it very much
282427
BEST OF THE TWO GOT THE PRIDE.\n\nITS A BITTER TRUTH.INDIAN TEAM IS NOT STRONGEST AS YOU THINK.\n\nENJOY THE CRICKET WITH 3RD PERSON ATTITUDE.\nYOU WILL FIND MORE TRUTHS ANT CHEATS.
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What is football to me... it changed my life, i played it when i was young kid for about 2 years in a team, then i left it then started at 15, been playing it ever since.. i am currently 19 playing in state league in Sydney, Australia... it changed me physically, mentally, socially. It made me realise that it changed the life of many children in disadvantaged communities all over the world, away from drugs and fighting. It is great for World Peace... Maybe not for England VS Argentina.. but it is still good. :D
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Football was developed in England. In fact, the UK has invented more sports than any other country in the world.\n\nAs to why its so popular, that is something of a social phenomenon, but a lot of the teams were developed from low income area - Arsenal was developed from the military depot in London, Blackburn Rovers was developed by old members of Blackburn Grammar school. In its early days, because of the low cost involved in watching the matches, and the limited time (all matches pretty much finish in under 2 hours, including stopages), it became very popular with the working class - mill workers, factory workers, general labourers, who did not have a great deal of disposable income or a lot of leisure time, so would go to watch a match to "escape" from the reality of their lives.\n\nOh, and its not just the UK. It is very popular in all European countries (Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and France all have great domestic leagues), is very popular in Africa (with the emergence of more and more world class African footballers), and is amazingly popular in South America (Brazil is pretty much always the best team in the world, and Argentina is always up there amongst the best). America is pretty unique in not having a massive following in football. It is about the only country to show any major interest in "Grid Iron" (American football) or Baseball (both developed from UK sports - rugby and rounders). Basketball is pretty popular in countries like Greece, and volleyball is quite popular in a lot of warm countries - but the UK is just too cold for it.\n\nBasically, football is the number one sport in the world - more people watch it than any other sport, and it has a lot more money involved in it in total than any other sport. The football world cup is a true world cup, with countries from around the world participating, as opposed to the world series, which involves a team from America versus, erm, a team from America...
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no boring Cricket is interesting sport like SOCCER\n\nhope this feature will help you.\n\nA cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. It is generally used to refer to professional cricketers rather than amateur players.\n\nA cricket match is played between two sides, each consisting of eleven cricketers or players, though by agreement that sides may allow fewer or more than eleven cricketers to play as long as no more than eleven players are fielding at any one time. Each team appoints a captain.\n\nThe rules concerning the players of a cricket game are in Law 1 of the Laws of cricket. This law also requires each team to be named prior to the toss of a coin to decide which team bats and which team bowls first. They may not be changed thereafter (but see Substitute). Law 1 also makes the captains responsible at all times for ensuring that play is conducted within the spirit and traditions of the game as well as within the Laws.\n\n\nTypes of cricketers\nCricketers can be classified by what area of the game they are best at. The most common classifications are:\n\nBatsman \nBowler \nWicket-keeper \nAll-rounder
19809
Cricket is a much better game than not only Baseball but also than any other games.\nCricket is played and is supported by the people all over the world,but Baseball is mainly played in USA.
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Yes there is a huge cricket crazy population in USA. Although we are not on the cricket map currently we play in many leagues here. Examples of one great league my team plays in is http://americancricket.us
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Dude.......\nThey have a national team but.........\n1)Out of 1 billion population, not even 10% of the population is interested in football.\n2)They like only Cricket\n3)The government is also not interested in this game of football\n4) There is no initiative from the Indian side.\n\nThus, though  India forms a national team it will be of no use.
639010
Several reasons.  One of the more entertaining that I heard is that since we cannot be the best at it (although we weren't the best at baseball in the world baseball classic, despite it being our "pastime") and so we aren't interested.  Although, wait until we do become the best, and then we'll give the world another reason to hate us.  Another reason I read about was that the sport in our country is put on the back burner, as far as fans see it.  While it doesnt receive the same attention as basketball's finals right now, the fan base is growing, and more and more stadiums in this country are being built just for soccer.  And there is a rumor that we might get David Beckham to play for the LA Galaxy in a couple or years...Another reason i have read about was that our youth leagues havent gained enough steam.  However, I would argue that youth league soccer is the second most popular to baseball in some or most parts of this country.  However, when you see kids playing in the playground, they arent playing soccer, they play touch football or something else.  But with the youth participation on the rise, I think this country will start to pour out some better and better players in the next decade.  All we need is to import a good coach for our national team (maybe we should steal a brazilian, like the portuguese did for this world cup).
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The main reason why Football is not as popular in the US is because of money.\nThere is no $$$ in football. All the games aired on TV, get a ton of sponsors/marketing/advertising because there are many intervals during the game, like basketball, american football and baseball. But in football there is only one interval of 15 minutes during more than 90 minutes of game time.\nAlso, America already has 3 Major sports, i.e, American Football, Baseball and Basketball. \n\nThe game will only catch on once more money comes into the sport, so more colleges can offer scholarships and the soccer leagues can offer more pay, and this is all possible only if there is more sponsorship/marketing.
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Of course the other first division leagues are better.  Those teams have been around for a hundred years.  The MLS is only 10 years old.  Give it time before you start trying to compare it to the EPL.  It may not be as pretty as the games from other countries, but it is still soccer and still great to watch.  It is also helping move the game along and make the US a more competitive national team. No complaints about it here.
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India is lot improved in one day matches these days. their winning streak in the last six months is proof to this. Reason for this is the emergence of players like dhoni and pathan. they play positive and aggresive cricket which is so important in one day cricket. If they continue this form which is helped by the mix of youth and experience, they can surely win the worldcup.