[Tspud1]

There is a quailifing process to get into the World Cup. If you are not good enough you don't go, hence no China or India.

[Jameison]

"There is a quailifing process to get into the World Cup. If you are not good enough you don't go, hence no China or India"

True.
But it goes to show soccer is not as prevalent in those 2 countries as the soccer supremacists would have us believe.
India for example is hooked on cricket.
That's like nearly one fifth of the human beings on the entire planet out of the soccer loop right there already.

Equally, basketball is very popular in China, and the Chinese know how to play it, and have regularly qualified for World and Olympic completions, something they have never done with soccer.