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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 794012" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>I guess the question is a bit chicken and egg... soccer didn't start out controlling the sporting landscape, so why did Rugby fail to become popular? </p><p></p><p>Why do you suppose Germans can't support anything but soccer? I find it interesting that in lots of other countries - Australia being one of the best examples - multiple professional football codes can thrive at a relatively high level. </p><p></p><p>In Australia professional players in Australian Football, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Cricket are all likely to be able to command relatively high salaries at the elite level (not by Euro soccer standards, but then there's only 24 million people in Australia), yet in German it seems like if you don't play soccer then everything else is close to irrelevant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 794012, member: 12207"] I guess the question is a bit chicken and egg... soccer didn't start out controlling the sporting landscape, so why did Rugby fail to become popular? Why do you suppose Germans can't support anything but soccer? I find it interesting that in lots of other countries - Australia being one of the best examples - multiple professional football codes can thrive at a relatively high level. In Australia professional players in Australian Football, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Cricket are all likely to be able to command relatively high salaries at the elite level (not by Euro soccer standards, but then there's only 24 million people in Australia), yet in German it seems like if you don't play soccer then everything else is close to irrelevant. [/QUOTE]
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