. . . For the Yanks are coming,
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56387717
Interesting piece. Two attitudes have always existed regarding this scenario:
1. It'll never happen (Americans).
2. It's inevitable (rest of the world).
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. . . For the Yanks are coming,
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56387717
Interesting piece. Two attitudes have always existed regarding this scenario:
1. It'll never happen (Americans).
2. It's inevitable (rest of the world).
It could be that if they ever win the FIFA World Cup trophy they can for first time actually claim to really be world champions of a sport played outside of America
The US women’s football team have been genuine world champions of a universal sport but that’s about it I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
It's true, of course. "The World Series" is one of the great misnomers.
It will be interesting to see how Americans (and I am one, incidentally, having received my citizenship in 1994), will react should basketball attain the global reach it is working for. Will there ever be a competitive basketball World Cup, and if there is, will Americans embrace this threat to their preeminence or will they treat it as an oddity, much as I look upon the FIFA Club World Cup?
Apart from Canada, the teams looking to dominate men's football over the next 10 years (England, France, USA) are the teams that have been dominant in women's football over recent years.
The USA have been Olympic rugby union champions for years and years.
I looked it up
1920 and 1924 Olympic gold medalists
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugb...ummer_Olympics
Thank you for the reference :thumbup:
Ya, but, ya, We been champions in this sport since 1920 :hehe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._in_tug_of_war
The 1912 competition was interesting. 7 teams from 5 countries. 2 withdrawals due to a footwear protest, which ended up with 3 GB teams, each from the Police, winning the medals.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Even so. Winning a gold medal doesn’t equate to being World champion of a team sport.
Out of interest, which sport are the Yanks claiming unjustly to be world champions in?Quote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
BaseballQuote:
Originally Posted by El Gwapo
The winners of the respective leagues play off in the World Series but, believe it or not, the current Baseball World Champions are The Netherlands although the last tournament was 2011. Cuba have won it the most on 25 occasions.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Isn't it called the World Series after the American newspaper "The World" which sponsored the event?