Globalization of Sports Quotes

The NBA is becoming a global game.

Everybody respected my choice to join the ISL. I was the one to decide to come to India and then many other foreign players decided to do the same.

There are not a lot of German players out there who are successful in a foreign country.

Brazilian boys as young as 14 and 15 are now based in Europe. They spend their best years in Europe and come back to Brazil when they are past their prime. This has destroyed local clubs and championships.

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.