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Originally Posted by habernac
Ever been to Central or South America? They live and breathe it as well.
Go Ticos!!
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I don't mean it in that sense. (In fact you'd be hard be hard pressed to find more soccer crazy countries than places like Netherlands, Germany and England.)
I mean it in the sense that in many African countries the local conditions such as local leagues are pretty bad, and they really need the exposure.
It's also one of the few team sports they can afford to play in many of those countries, and actually one of the few sports in general. They don't get a lot of sports exposure outside of soccer, and that's often pretty much the only good press they get.
Soccer puts countries like Cameroon and Ghana on the map. This is is of course also true for Costa Rica, but less so for Canada or Finland.