Watch out Brazil! Here we come!!!

Azure #6 writes ``Paki leg is lean, weak, femininish, shaky, wobbly and needs heavy duty workout.``

Azure, paki arms are lean, weak, feminish, shaky, wobbly and need heavy duty workout too. But then why is it that Afridi has hit more sixes than the muscular australians and englishmen?

Azure, sadly, its the mentality of Pakistanis like yourself that is femininshed, shaky, wobbly, and needs heavy duty workout :) For it is not the emotions and the muscles of the body that make a football team win, or else profressional wrestlers would be playing the game. Its the technique and the mental prowess and the training that makes a football team win. If that werent the case, the match-stick legged South Koreans would not have made it to Semi Finals of previous football world cup.

So while I am still for adopting American football as homage to our new masters, I take offense to your under-estimating our will to give a competition in whatever game we play at an international level.

Pakistan in Super Bowl 2020!!!!!

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Dear Malik, first of all I would like to apologize for having drawn a picture of your legs back there. I know it feels bad, but hey, there`s always a Hakeem Sulaiman out there somewhere to save the day! ;-)

Wrestlers are not very muscular. Look at them walk when they`re coming down that `aisle`. Muscular people and sportsmen don`t walk like that. And it`s not about having an excess of muscular tissue in your legs, its about having lots of it and being able to control it that makes you a good sportsman. If technique, mental prowess and training is all that takes to become a good sportsman then I think I can train the Paki team for FIFA in my virtual simulator lab and a white board!

American football? You mean that game in which some bulky men push, growl and hit each other with their shoulders just to give only ONE kick to that ball for a touchdown? Just ONE kick?! Come on man, soccer is better than that!

pakistan makes 90% of worlds footballs right?

Generally, Pakistanis are very 70 percent-ish people. They do what they think others can do, and don`t even try doing what others have never done. Lack of self confidence and determination are the contributing factors, but the problem can be rooted out only if people realized that they need encouragement and motivation to get things started. Ok, so they suck at self motivation... at least they can motivate others to do what others cannot do or do something which seems impossible! It takes just a few to start the trend in Pakiland, then the chain reaction starts.

Go to a house where every elder watches cricket. They sit around the TV like lazy slobs staring at some other lazy men playing slowly with a little cork ball wearing tons of padding and sunblocks. The rooh-afza drinks come in, and everyone takes a break to view the rest of the dumb game later in the evening. The same thing starts all over again, but this time the teams have switched from batting to balling and vice versa. When the match finally ends everyone realizes that they have lives to live. But since they`re too tired to do anything else after watching the match, they go to sleep. And guess what happens on the other side of the screen... PAISA PAISA PAISAAAAA!! Oh yes, fraud and money and politics.. that`s what this sick game called Cricket is all about.

Why Pakistanis can`t play Football? Like I said, they`re 70% people. Compare the Paki footballers leg width with some mediocre Brazilian, Italian or French player. The Paki leg is lean, weak, femininish, shaky, wobbly and needs heavy duty workout. Maybe its in our genes... maybe we`re too lazy to work harder and build more muscle mass. Or maybe we don`t get the right kind of steroids to get those hormones going!! Whatever the case might be... we just don`t try harder. And football isn`t a game for the weeners and the loonies, it`s for the ones who play the game for the love of it.

So it would be great if one day we`d see Pakistan in the quarter finals, at least, of some FIFA 30XX A.D. Football involves more teamwork, more emotion, more power, a wee bit o` sporty stealth, and tremendous amounts of energy for that 2 hour game. I do hope that our Pakistani team finally realizes how stupid a game they`re playing and shift to football. Inzi would make an excellent goalkeeper, Shoaib Akhter and Waqar Yonus would be the forwards and our little wicket keeper can be the defender! But I doubt the fact that loonies like them can even kick the ball 20 feet away!

Thanks for bringing this up Yahya. Long live the Football spirit! Bring `em on!

Re: # 6PAKISTANIS ARE 170% ISH PEOPLE, NOT 70%ISH.
If some one compares Jaffer Khan with Bagio, Ronaldo or XYZ, I would like to remind him that Pakistani footballers are keeping the game alive despite their poor financial situation. Where Bagio is earning millions and billions, a Pakistani footballer doesn`t even get enough money to keep himself and his family alive( no wonder he has lean legs). Hussain Shah, the famous boxer once said in his interview that he doesn`t even want to imagine the horrible days of his youth when he did not had enough money to feed his family. How can you expect him to defeat the billionaire Mike Tyson in the ring. Muhammad Yousuf, the snooker champion also faced almost the same situation. Pakistani boxers and footballers are keeping the games alive, the credit goes to them and only them and I salute them on their bravery and valour.

I just got back after a gruelling flight from nyc, turned on the telly and i saw blurbs of an india/pak football match which ended in a tied score, despite the fact that Baichung Bhutia(Indian captain) ain`t playing `cause he`s injured.Not bad i thought, since i always thought paks to be better at football than us indians.So, maybe this article does make some sense after all!!!.

i think you meant to say 22200... :)) if we are lucky...lol

No use of kicking and screaming at PFF. Time to introduce a privately owned Pakistan Soccer League (PSL) if the name is not taken already.

Who stops soccer (football) lovers to own city teams and compete against each other? We have to be idiots of the highest order to ask the Pak government that it could never deliver. Time to take action and start your own league. Heck with international football. We ought to have fun at home first.

The same suggestion goes for basketball, hockey, and cricket too. No need to have these national teams when we can`t even support a local team. Everything has to start from grounds up. Leave few big issues for the Pak government and take control of the rest.

I am all for introducing american football in Pakistan. Cricket is as passe as the British Empire. Americans are our new masters. And its about time we updated ourselves.

And before anyone jumps the gun, yes, I am all for replacing cricket with baseball as well. Inzamam and Afridi need not worry about a layoff. Their skills are transferable, given the similarities between cricket and baseball. Afridi may even become the biggest home runner. Shoaib Akhtar has all the necessary skills to become a viable pitcher.

Do I hear Pakistan in Super Bowl by 2020?

Football is one of those sports that you don`t really have to ardently follow the game in order to enjoy it.Watching the ball being kicked around is infectious.Many a time id tune into a french channel just to watch their domestic games.Didnt know the teams, dont know the language....still fun to watch...!!

Cricket is just so obscenely strong in pak that it dwarfs every other sport.Twenty20 for cricket was a big success, why not try similar domestic matches for footbal in pak..who knows..