File talk:Football world popularity.png

Colour Coding

• Yes, Although the USA's number 1 sport is not soccer it is deffinately a very popular, well respected and much watched game. I also have to agree that for many of these countries soccer is much more popular then this map shows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpismart1 (talk • contribs) 02:06, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

• What does 'No 1 sport' mean,and how is this status established?217.43.168.194 (talk) 19:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

• In Chile, Uruguay and Ecuador football is more popular then in Argentina!!?? that´s not right!!

the map is stupid

• In estonia it's definetely the mot popular sport~! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.233.65.56 (talk) 14:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

• I think this colour codded map should be removed...there are numours mistakes and it is not clear how the stat "most popular sport" is obtained. in canada for instance soccer is the most registered sport in the country, even more popular then hockey —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rmiller9 (talk • contribs) 18:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

• I call for deletion of this map that is being horribly misused. Just look at the United States. It shows football as being the most popular sport due to the large number of players. Reality has Soccer in the United States living under the radar. Kenallen (talk) 23:10, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

• I agree in Egypt the don't play anything but football. Its has the lowest number of players according to the map how come? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.232.109.2 (talk) 18:44, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

• Can someone put the banner up to call for deletion? I am not sure how. Kenallen (talk) 23:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I know. Why the heck is Japan, Australia, Panama, Finland, Nicaragua, etc. are colorerd red? They should be blue. We demand a new map!--Villa88 (talk) 07:11, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Japan should be green. Russia, Belarus, Uraine and Kazakhstan should be red. Panama should be blue. 220.210.143.190 (talk) 14:13, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

• US my ass. I was stationed in Turkey for a few years and they even declare official holidays for national team games, yet they are ranked as lower popularity. There is like an indoor soccer field in every 4-5 streets for regular people to pay up and play. Nice map that shows nothing.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.103.157.170 (talk) 16:48, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

• Why is China striped?200.129.133.131 (talk) 12:59, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

IDIOT?

in Poland,Hungary,and Scandinavia football is definitely not nr.1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.83.42.34 (talk) 14:30, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

What? In Hungary it is said "every hungarian considers himself an expert in soccer and politics". The steep decline in results by the hungarian national soccer team since 1966 is a common national grief and everybody asks twice a week when we will return to the good ol' 1950 "Puskas era". Soccer is definitely still number 1 in Hungary, followed by handball and kayak-canoe. 91.83.2.209 (talk) 18:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

SOUTH AFRICA Football is DEFINITELY not the no 1 sport in SA, it's not even in the top 5 biggest sports there! XJ3N0V4x (talk) 11:59, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Colors

The colors should be changed. The dark blue and dark red colors both look nearly like black and are very hard to distinguish. --MrBurns (talk) 19:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

One color scheme

There should be only one color scheme used on this map. The distinction between popular and unpopular appears to be quite arbitrary... 207.179.154.234 (talk) 20:40, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Color Blind

I have red-green color blindness, so to me there is no distinction on this map between popular and unpopular. I support the idea of a single color scheme. If there *must* be two colors, please consider shades that color-blind people can distinguish. Mdfinn (talk) 16:29, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

This is completely meaningless to me, there is no way I can differentiate between the different colours. Use different textures. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.111.57.18 (talk) 22:24, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Another complaint on inadequate image

I find it quite amusing that the Republic of Ireland is coloured as a country that doesn't like football - i know they love their Gaelic football but trust me they love their soccer just as much so the map is stupid in that regards! Mabuska (talk) 01:27, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Huh?

I'm confused. Why are there three color schemes being used? What's the significance of the red, green and blue? Blue appears in the legend but doesn't seem to be used anywhere in the map. What's the difference between the greens and reds? What a silly map. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 19:41, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

• Try this map. It's a bit easier to understand, no? --Ouzo (talk) 20:45, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Yeah I really don't understand it either. Dark colours are popular, light colours are unpopular. So why is there green, red, and blue? 139.184.30.134 (talk) 10:19, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Agree. someone really needs to change this map. The difference between very popular and unpopular is only a hint of green while red represents barely any increase in popularity over green. it is impossible to understand what this map is saying on first glance, and even when you look at it for a long time it isnt very good. 69.118.200.171 (talk) 00:55, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Yeah. This map is very confusing. --130.234.5.138 (talk) 22:05, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Alternative version without popularity colours

Map showing the number of players per 1,000 inhabitants around the world.

I have created a version without the varying colour - simply a map showing the number of players per thousand in green. Is this worth being used on the association football page in place of this map? What do people think? Woodgreener (talk) 19:20, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

serious suggestion

just leave stupid north america out of the image and colour everything dark green--91.9.180.23 (talk) 17:51, 28 December 2010 (UTC)