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Could rugby ever be as global as basketball or even football?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cruz_del_Sur" data-source="post: 993209" data-attributes="member: 55747"><p>Disagree. In order for a sport to be popular, you need to be able for people everywhere to play it. Again, opportunity. </p><p>Think of poor people in say, Kinshasa or Yangon or Managua, who can barely afford to put a meal on the table. How do you think their parents will be able to afford roller skates for their kids? I can tell you one thing. Food or no food on the table, odds are those kids play football. </p><p></p><p>Football's success has a very simple recipe: Minimal infrastructure, simple rules, and controversy. The greatest goal in the history of the sport was not the most talked-about goal from the same bloody game. </p><p>That is one of the two main reasons why FIFA stood against VAR for so long. </p><p></p><p>Rugby doesn't need much infrastructure but still more than football, the rules are way more complicated and the organizing bodies do a genuine effort to bring transparency and accountability to the game. About this last one, not saying they are doing a good job, but their aim is clear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cruz_del_Sur, post: 993209, member: 55747"] Disagree. In order for a sport to be popular, you need to be able for people everywhere to play it. Again, opportunity. Think of poor people in say, Kinshasa or Yangon or Managua, who can barely afford to put a meal on the table. How do you think their parents will be able to afford roller skates for their kids? I can tell you one thing. Food or no food on the table, odds are those kids play football. Football's success has a very simple recipe: Minimal infrastructure, simple rules, and controversy. The greatest goal in the history of the sport was not the most talked-about goal from the same bloody game. That is one of the two main reasons why FIFA stood against VAR for so long. Rugby doesn't need much infrastructure but still more than football, the rules are way more complicated and the organizing bodies do a genuine effort to bring transparency and accountability to the game. About this last one, not saying they are doing a good job, but their aim is clear. [/QUOTE]
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