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World Cup Mystery: Why is China So Horrible at Soccer?
China may be the world’s most populous nation but a men’s soccer giant it is not. Indeed, the nation, ranked 103 in FIFA’s rankings — that’s one below Equatorial Guinea — didn’t even make this year’s World Cup finals. Or the last one. Or the one before that. So how do China’s beleaguered football fans feel? Resigned, mostly. “If China were in the World Cup,” says Chen Xiao, a football journalist from Shijiazhuang, in northeastern China, “it would contradict the laws of football.”
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They're too busy playing table tennis.
Found a gif called "Why China Doesn't Participate in the World Cup" and it reminded me of this post.
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