sanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 9 天前How do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todayimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down19
arrow-up1413arrow-down1imageHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 9 天前message-square103fedilink
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·8 天前Many sports have a ‘world cup’.
minus-squarestarchylemming@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 天前all of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets sadly
minus-squareKillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachtslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 天前But only the USA has a world cup with local teams
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-28 天前I 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-up2·8 天前It clearly comes from the fact that to Americans the world is just the US and Canada
minus-squaresqw@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·7 天前USA has its World Series (baseball, and not open to the world). What’s the closed USA world cup?
Many sports have a ‘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?
Only one has ‘The’ World Cup