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Originally posted by johnny:
maybe they gave those two countries that tournament too soon. Football is still a pretty new and upcoming sport overthere and most people don't even understand the game. In japan is baseball number 1 and the koreans aren't used to football in the weekends either. If they wanna avoid these things in the future, they should stick to either a european or a south american country, and you can be sure the stadiums are loaded.
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What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with popularity and everything to do with beaurocratic bungling. Football is immensely popular in Asia.
The China/Brazil match alone will be watched by 10 - 20 MILLION viewers.