sky news report on Asian footballers

Why is it that China, a country that loves football, doesn't have a decent national team? You see more of North Korea in football than China, and that's saying something.
 
There was a chinese guy in one of the football teams I trained with a few times. He got absolutely rinsed in a quite strongly racist and not particularly friendly (i.e. not just "banter") way by a large segment of the team.

This was a small town team, not sure if it should be taken as reflective of a wider issue, but I can't understand how the poor bloke could stick it.
 
eggyoke said:
Why is it that China, a country that loves football, doesn't have a decent national team? You see more of North Korea in football than China, and that's saying something.
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I would presume genetics. None really have a football'in family history. Look at the modern day footballer too, 6ft+ athletic. There are the exceptions but they are crazy good on the ball.

Asian's aren't generally built that way. Again there are exceptions, but then out of the tiny minority of Asian's that are 6ft+ and athletic, you want good footballers.

Lack of interest on their part is probably key as well. They would rather play e-sports.
 
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When I was at school the Pakistani's would rarely play football, it was always cricket whether it be in the playground, PE, or on the local fields/streets. They are just not interested in playing football so you won't get the players coming through, it's a cultural thing.

If anything the question should be why there are so few British Asians in cricket.
 
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dirtychinchilla said:
Three ways to look at it; either they're trying to force positive discrimination, Asians aren't good enough on the whole at football, or the system is inherently racist. Considering the number of foreign and black players in football, I think the racism is unlikely.

I'm sure we've all known a lot of decent Asian footballers.
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well I guess they are just leaving it as one thing we can look good at :D
 
ICEx21 said:
This nailed it. Being of Asian descent I've seen a few decent footballers that could have gone far but then packed it in to go become a doctor, lawyer, banker and so on just because they felt they were either letting their family down or because the family pressured them to take another career path.
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Kainz said:
Nail hit head. I'm a Brit born Hindu and have known quite a few indian footballers as I grew up. Sadly due to tradition being as strong as it is in asian communities - especially Gujerati's they ended up going into owning a businesses.
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This is absolutely shocking and clearly something must be done. What is the world coming too when people are wasting there lives by being a doctor or running a business and creating employment, when they could be kicking a ball around a field?
 
Mr Badger said:
This is absolutely shocking and clearly something must be done. What is the world coming too when people are wasting there lives by being a doctor or running a business and creating employment, when they could be kicking a ball around a field?
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Congrats on missing the point completely.

The point was they wanted to play sports but were pressured into doing something else.

Did anyone actually watch the report in question? It's quite clear they're referring to Asians from the sub continent, not South Korea, China or Japan.
 
There are a few sports that pretty much require you to drop out of school/college nevermind going to Uni to become part of the elite.

Football is one of them, and Asian families will always priority education over this.
Tennis is another example, I know of a girl from an Indian family who was the best national player at youth level. But to go that next step it meant moving abroad to Spain to develop her Tennis career, her family said no and she's at Uni now.
 
Just seen the actual report on TV, things like this really annoy me. In a report about under-representation of the Asian community in football, I found the report itself under-represented people of Asia. The guy only interviewed and spoke about people from Indian and Pakistani backgrounds. He never once so much as mentioned or spoke about Asians from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia etc.

I just think that if you're going to raise the issue of under-representation, then at least speak about all groups otherwise it doesn't work.
 
Speaking as a parent with a lad on the books of a Premier league club in a predominately Asian city this doesn't exactly shock me. The Asian lads that do well and in fact most of the lads that are there are predominately from middle-class backgrounds. There is a stigma associated with football and the amount of work required from the parents is very very high. You are travelling across the country and now appears I will soon have to be going abroad too. The actual costing cost at the earlier ages is very high. You are constantly making sacrifices to enable them to follow their dream and we all know the chances are even at the end they most likely will not end up playing football as a fulltime career but in some ancillary role within it. Now adding that all in it's hardly shocking when you have a demographic that see university educations and starting up businesses as desirable that they will just not really want their kids going through what can sometimes feel like a cattlemarket.
 
Im half white and half asian (Indian) and I love football. Play it every Saturday and Sunday. Was never good enough to make it but I just think its a cultural/genetic thing to be honest. Im not in Uni and I have a fairly avearge job. Just think its down to there not really interested in playing football at a high level. I however was, but never good enough which may come down to my genes, I dont know. The only player I can think of who is remotley of an Indian background is Michael Chopra.
 
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