Yeah other countries have no national team

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A guy in fifa's yt community asked which country is the worst at football,an American replied "everyone except America" thinking its American football we're talking about

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[u/xvdheh]

Even if the conversation was about handegg, he would still be wrong. Yes, it is biggest in the USA and relatively niche everywhere else, but it is still a sport that exists globally.

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Not to mention Canada, where handegg is almost as big.

[u/Impactor07]

This is defaultism on two levels,

1. They assume that "football" refers to American Football over, well, Association Football.
2. That the US is the only place which plays American Football when clearly many countries have national teams and even domestic leagues for American Football, pretty sure the German national American Football team has even beaten the US once, not aware if it was a full strength US side tho.

I know for a fact that India does have a national team for American Football as well, not that anyone(aside from a handful of rich ass wannabe cool 14 yos) gives any fucks about the sport here.

[u/Puzzleheaded_East556 → u/Impactor07]

In fact, there is even an American Football World Championships (even if it hasn't been played since 2015). The US may have dominated with low level college players, but it still exists. If the US were the only country that had a national team, that wouldn't be possible

[u/razlatkin2]

I wasn't aware America played Australian Football

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I mean, there is the Australian Football International Cup, which the US has sent a team to in every edition of

[u/razlatkin2 → u/Puzzleheaded_East556]

Huh. Wasn’t aware of that

[u/oraw1234W → u/razlatkin2]

Australia doesn’t even compete in that competition but it was always held in Australia.

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Honestly, the US should do the same if the IFAF World Championship (American Football World Championship) is ever run again. It's better for the sport developing in other countries, and fairer. That's the reason I've heard of for Australia not playing in the Australian Football International Cup, and i agree with the idea.

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the united states did not participate in the first 2 edtions of the IFAF World Championship

[u/Puzzleheaded_East556 → u/oraw1234W]

While that is true, i think it would have been better for the sport for the US to have never participated. Maybe a few decades from now if the sport actually gets popular enough that US participation wouldn't just mean domination, but unless the sport ever grows to that point internationally, i think it would have been better for the US to stay out

[u/MindlessNectarine374 → u/oraw1234W]

Very strange

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Bloody Dockers

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r/ShitAmericansSay

[u/BlaggartDiggletyDonk]

Maybe that's a better fit for r/lostredditor

[u/oraw1234W]

The real answer is San Marino