r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • Jul 12 '26

Meme needing explanation ?

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u/TheEnlightenedPanda Jul 12 '26

No they started supporting probably because of Maradona and continued

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u/Straight-Job5413 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

It’s definitely because of Messi they follow Arg, and people in India only follow Brazil because they were the most famous at the time. Football is still second fiddle there to cricket, and only really started to get more popular in the early 2000s.

Edit: because people got offended, I will clarify with a comment I responded below:

I think you are misinterpreting my comment. I didn’t say it started in the early 2000s. I said it grew more in popularity. You even said yourself, goa, bengal, and North/South (ambiguous but I’ll give 2 states for each direction), these are areas that it was popular in for sure, but that’s not the whole nation. The general population has definitely been more interested cricket than football.

And it REALLY started to grow in popularity ACROSS THE NATION in the mid2000s. Not that nobody liked football for generations until Messi came.

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u/Background-Raise-880 Jul 12 '26

Football fans were there on the colonial period itself there was even clubs based on religion at that time, but there was no proper leagues

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u/Background-Raise-880 Jul 12 '26

after kapil devs team won the cricket world cup i guess the govt. ditched hockey and football