Why do the Chinese and Indian national football team sucks so much?

[supersewelly]

Originally Posted by RooneysRightBoot

Because the Indians play sports like cricket, and the Chinese play [Removed] sports like Ping Pong, Figure Skating, Golf, Snooker. Nobody there is interested in playing any sports where you might have to run fast for a bit, or don't get to have a nice little dance.

Who topped the last Olympic medal table?

[Doc]

Originally Posted by supersewelly

Who topped the last Olympic medal table?

Exactly, the child is clueless.

[Brendyne]

I'm sure India don't play at all.

China are regressing, there's no emphasis on sports that aren't essentially Chinese there.

Plus most families are way too poor to afford to have their kids play. Most kids work from the time they physically can on the parents farm.

[Dustin]

Originally Posted by Brendyne

I'm sure India don't play at all.

China are regressing, there's no emphasis on sports that aren't essentially Chinese there.

Plus most families are way too poor to afford to have their kids play. Most kids work from the time they physically can on the parents farm.

They play basketball, though. Which just leads me to ask why they aren't better at basketball as well as football.

Anyway, on topic, I've always wondered the same. I know these countries are generally pretty poor, but so are a lot of African and Latin American countries and they do fine. And I wonder the complete opposite with North Korea. How does such an isolated and strict country produce any talent?

[RooneysRightBoot]

Originally Posted by supersewelly

who topped the last olympic medal table?

The USA.

[supersewelly]

Originally Posted by RooneysRightBoot

The USA.

Not according to err...fact.

[AXERTYRE]

But China got many more goal medals than the yanks

[Scuba Steve]

US won the most medals, China had the most gold medals.

[supersewelly]

China topped the table according to IOC's method of calculation.

Pretty official methinks.

[supersewelly]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

US won the most medals, China had the most gold medals.

So China won.

[Scuba Steve]

I was just stating the facts. I am not debating either way.

[Weather130]

Olympic medal tables all depend how you look at it;

Most gold medals China 51
Most silver medals USA 38
Most bronze medals USA 36
Most total medals USA 110

[supersewelly]

Originally Posted by Weather130

Olympic medal tables all depend how you look at it;

Most gold medals China 51
Most silver medals USA 38
Most bronze medals USA 36
Most total medals USA 110

I remember being in a hotel at the time and they had US papers in. They were all printed using total medal methods while everybody else got on with the official ordering.

Pathetic tbh.

Personally I think it should be done on a points system.

3 points for Gold, 2 for Silver 1 for Bronze.

[dena]

Ironically the Chinese got a lot of gold medals in the shooting events, thought we would've had that hands down tbh.

[Weather130]

Originally Posted by dena

Ironically the Chinese got a lot of gold medals in the shooting events, thought we would've had that hands down tbh.

Actually a guy from North Korea won two medals before being Disqualified for doping. The best part is the North Korean media never reported this so they most likely are unaware of what actually happened.

[den525player]

Its simple, different cultures and people brought up differently, different government policies etc etc.

In India, it is simple, they are crazy about cricket, they don't give a toss about football, they used to be a good at Hockey as well. Cricket is simply in their blood, for a size of a football field, they can have 10 cricket games in there, they play simultaneously right next to each other.

In China, the culture is totally different, family comes first, being successful and not poor is their main priority, in western countries parents encourage their kids to play sports, in china they don't. before the china olympics they showed tons of documentaries on chinese athletes struggling because of family reasons and not supporting them.

Before they announced that china was hosting the olympics (2001)...
In 2000, china had a medal tally count of 28G 16S 15B, getting those medals in their usually sports.
In 2008, 51G 21S 28B doubling the medal count.

The point is the government has alot to do with it, as soon as China was announced to host the 2008 Olympics the government invested a millions and millions of dollars in alot of sports so they will succeed, and for chinese families, they realised being successful in their own olympics would be great, plus chinese athletes who won gold medals all got 1 million dollars plus apartments, sponsorship deals etc which is a great incentive.

If China in the future bid for the world cup, i have no doubt they will bring a successful team.

[Hitchy9]

Poor physical attributes. It just basically comes down to genetics

[den525player]

Originally Posted by Hitchy9

Poor physical attributes. It just basically comes down to genetics

why do people say poor physical attributes?

what just because every chinese or indian you see is short and skinny? If thats the case americans, australians and the english have poor physical attributes because the population is full of obese people.

Chinese athletes have pretty good physical attributes, just because it is not in football, doesn't mean they have poor physical attributes or genetics, that comment is idiotic.

You are Australian, whenever the socceroos play against Asian oppositions, the commentators, papers etc always say we would have an "advantage" because of our physical attributes, has that been the case? no.

[Brendyne]

Originally Posted by Dustin

They play basketball, though. Which just leads me to ask why they aren't better at basketball as well as football.

Anyway, on topic, I've always wondered the same. I know these countries are generally pretty poor, but so are a lot of African and Latin American countries and they do fine. And I wonder the complete opposite with North Korea. How does such an isolated and strict country produce any talent?

Well, when you/if you ever go to China, there's not many Chinese with height. They are, generally shorter then most countries average.

That's why they aren't that great at basketball, but of course there are always exceptions.

I know for a fact kids from Asian countries like basketball, but never persue it.

[TorresxVilla]

To the person who said that China plays "homosexual" sports...

Every country focuses on different sports.

China is extremely good at ping pong, diving, volleyball, badminton...etc. Sports that require technique, and less physical/endurance.

Doesn't that mean that Chinese are weaker/inferior.

Everyone is built for different things.

[v3sh1]

Originally Posted by den525player

You are Australian, whenever the socceroos play against Asian oppositions, the commentators, papers etc always say we would have an "advantage" because of our physical attributes, has that been the case? no.

Only that one time against Thailand when Viduka was surrounded by like 5 defenders and they all pretty much bounced off him and he scored. That was pretty funny lol.

The Chinese Super League isn't too bad and I would think their national team would be alot better from what I've seen of their teams in the Asian Champions League. Heck Australia has one of it's international defenders playing in China and another defender who has been in an out of the national team just left the A-League to go on loan to China to try secure a world cup spot. Their league isn't that bad but for some reason their national team doesn't seem to play any better than what the Chinese League teams do

[v3sh1]

Hey didn't China get pretty much every gold medal in the weight lifting at last Olympics??? Can't say Chinese people are small and weak...

[RooneysRightBoot]

Er...if USA got most medals then they finished top of the table. If you had said 'Gold Medal table' you'd have a point, but if a country wins only 1 gold medal, have they done better than a country who has won 100 silver medals and 100 bronze medals? Don't be ridiculous.

No real men would play Ping Pong.

[MetalWolf]

There is no system in place to find talent, same problem with america, if they put in a good scouting system they could find loads of talent, which is slowly happening.

[den525player]

Originally Posted by RooneysRightBoot

Er...if USA got most medals then they finished top of the table. If you had said 'Gold Medal table' you'd have a point, but if a country wins only 1 gold medal, have they done better than a country who has won 100 silver medals and 100 bronze medals? Don't be ridiculous.

No real men would play Ping Pong.

but thats not the case. China won 51G 21S 28B where US won 36G 38S 36B. Sure US won more medals (by 10), but at the end of the day Gold is what matters, no one ever remembers who came 2nd. If you gave Gold 3 points, silver 2 points and bronze 1 point, china would be top.

Ping Pong takes alot of skills to be good at, just because you don't appreciate it, don't say real men would not play ping pong, it just makes you sound ignorant.

Football ignorants say that the best football players in the world dive like a baby, which makes it not a real man sport. its the same thing.