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            @_roko easy for people to play, 1 ball and something that resembles a goal and you can playAlso there's a world wide competition which gives the game more prestige, not sure if there's a baseball or basketball competition that includes other countries outside of the Olympics lol
            
            
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              @neikocat @_roko it's also useful for feeling superior to merikens. tried playing together in a sand lot with bunch of querétaro mexico kids when was 15 or so, and even though was on a team back home i still got laughed at ????
              
             
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              @neikocat interesting.  interesting. popularity in Africa also kinda discredits my theory. Do you can to opine on the matter?
              
             
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              @_roko China are into football bigly, Xi has even made having a world class league one of his goals
              
             
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              this is as close I can I can think of
              
             
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              so what trait is positively correlated with a country really really liking football/soccer?