Conor
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I don't get your argument, none of the things you've said make sense in the context of the thread title(that football was the main sport of the US). The minnows you've mentioned are all football crazy countries, and just because they've been successful in the past, it doesn't mean that if one of the most populated countries in the world put their main focus in football, and had millions of kids playing football as their sport from the age of 4/5, they somehow wouldn't be a dominant force?We'll have to wait and see whether that last feature (experience playing international football) is as big of a factor as is claimed. It may explain the correlation but will it be accurate predicting the success of China and India and the US in the future?
I think what grates me about this question is that it can be reframed as, "if the US tried they'd be number 1, they just don't want to". That sounds so douchey (for lack of a better word). And this is coming from an American.
I don't understand how anyone can come to the conclusion that the US wouldn't be a powerhouse if football was the most played sport, it has both the numbers and ethnic diversity to find natural talent purely from a statistical perspective, and the wealth to set up a good coaching structure(this is all within the hypothetical context of the country having taken football on as the no. 1 sport of course).