Re:The rise and rise of e-sports
by defrost on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:04AM
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Hell of an assumption, central north american hand egg is largely constrained to its parish north of Mexico | south of Canada in an area that barely cracks 330 million.
By contrast actual football has an estimated global fanbase of some 3.5 billion.
Even in the poorest part of the globe with no equipment of proper fields you'll find young people practicing with 'balls' made from wadded up material bound by tape, playing keepy up with hacky sacks and other odd objects, etc.
(And now I see your edit .. ah, well)
FWiW I grew up with a limited equipment dirt field version of foot egg, aka:
By contrast actual football has an estimated global fanbase of some 3.5 billion.
Even in the poorest part of the globe with no equipment of proper fields you'll find young people practicing with 'balls' made from wadded up material bound by tape, playing keepy up with hacky sacks and other odd objects, etc.
(And now I see your edit .. ah, well)
FWiW I grew up with a limited equipment dirt field version of foot egg, aka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMZYZcoAcU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_SqfNNfhmM