Asian football players

Yea, Meng tzu I am actually currently residing in CA...so i get what you mean...A lot of my friends are actually interested in football, but so many asians are so concerened with becoming lawyers or docters, I think that it will be a long time before we actually get an NFl player...

Lol, I live in Fullerton, wich is near LA and anaheim....

Lol, yes it gets more and more like Korea town every day

well theres this football player i forgot which team that he plays for i think its chargers but hes vietnamese and his name is like tom nguyen or michael nguyen or something

 

Hey Hansioux,

    I'm sure it's called English football.  Supposedly, soccer as it is played now originated from England.  (Doesn't mean other forms of football wasn't played in other places.  Most likely paralelle and separate origination of a similar game.  I mean, come on, it's just kicking a ball around, how hard is it to think of it, right.)  Btw, Chargers sucks anyway.  (Dunno how good they were when that Vietnamese guy was around in their team though.)

Peace,

Michael

8-30-2004

Hey Hansioux,

    I think you're right.  Basketball, if I'm not mistaken, is actually invented in America.  But I have to say that the sport that matters most to Americans is baseball.  I'm not sure if it is derived from cricket, but it was played all the way back in Civil War days.  In any case, I don't think any sport tops the popularity of baseball in America.  I mean, basketball and American football tend to appeal to particular audiences (I'm generalizing here, but it appears that basketball is more popular with urban folks and American football with rural, suburban folks.)  btw, I think there's a possibility that rugby was simply developed separately from soccer (and wasn't strictly derived from it.  The story of how it was invented -- a soccer player got frustrated and carried the ball to the goal is still interesting though.)

Peace,

Michael

8-30-2004

Hey Styrbiorn,

    I've read (but who can trust stuff online completely anyway) that soccer dates back to 12th century England.  I suppose you Europeans would hate to credit any other of your European cousins with its invention =)  Btw, thanks for the info, didn't know that a Canadian invented it.  (I've heard, though, that the original game was played with an actual basket.  They have to use a ladder to get the ball every single time someone scores.)

Peace,

Michael

8-30-2004

Haha, yes, I heard the Canadians invented basketball

Well, if baseball wasn't such an expansive sport, maybe it will be even more popular.

Being from Taiwan and all... baseball will always be my favorite sport.  Did anyone see that Australia won silver at the Olympics for baseball...... Damn, I didn't see that one coming.  I thouht Canada for sure was going to get a medel.

Eventhough James Naismith was Canadian... the game was actually invented in America, Springfield, Mass...

Hey Hansioux,

    May be the Brits lied to us.  I think the HongKongese call it English football.  (Well, the site I saw that said that soccer was invented in 12th century England isn't written by Hongkongese.  So if it's a British lie, there is more than just one victim who got deceived)

    You know it's moments like this that I feel incredibly stupid.  I didn't know there's baseball in the Olympics.  Cuz I don't really follow the Olympics.  Another American prejudice, I guess: we only get gung ho about pro national sports.  All that gymnastic stuff is too soft.

    I dunno, is baseball really that expensive to play?  I mean, there are minimal equipments.  (Just some bats, some gloves, very little armors, and typical uniforms.)  The stadiums are expensive, but then any pro sport requires stadiums and they're all expensive.  You're right, though, if you compare it to soccer, I think (you basically don't need a ball or a field to play soccer.  In Hong Kong people would play it in the narrowest places kicking around anything they can lay their hands on.)  If I have to vote for the most expensive sport, though, it would have to be American football.  Btw, I think the popularity of baseball in Asia has to do with the American wannabes of Asia (like Korea and Taiwan.)  Hongkongese got brainwashed by the Brits.  We only play soccer.

Peace,

Michael

8-30-2004