Last football game I bought was fifa 2001. I avidly avoid anyone who talks football and any football related media be it on tv,paper, internet so on. I even had big arguments with my best friends because they chose to watch matches over table top rpg. I resent football, man. Sick of it. Overexposed.

All that said, the guy I replied to didn't sound like he was making any point other than claiming people not caring about football specifically. A lot of US Americans are ignorant to rest of the world and outspoken about it. It gets stale very fast.

I am from Turkey and I asked questions like "are there still people crossing deserts only riding camels?" , "how do you know if you are attracted to your wife to be before marrying if she has to wear burqa all the time?" , "is wearing fez mandatory there?" This are real life obnoxious questions I was asked. Turkey doesn't have deserts in its borders to begin with! We are a small country which happens to have parts experience all sorts of seasons and climates. North Turkey is covered with mountains and deep dark green lush foliage where forests are not reaching. Similar to Scotland. West Turkey is right next to Greece and looks very similar. Greek people used to live there predominantly so even culture is similar. South West is Mediterranean shore of ours. Climate and vegetation wise similar to parts of Italy. South East was part of Levant and it is next to Iraq and Syria. Looks Arabic geography wise sans the deserts and camels. Very small portion of the country, too. East is icy mountain land with high altitudes. We have top notch ski resorts and meters of snow. Borders with Iran, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. North West is literally a part of European continent. Balkan soil. Similar climate and stuff. We even have gipsies. Then there is inner Anatolia which is utter shit with tons of people supporting Erdogan. Climate: Heaps of shit everywhere and self righteous ignorant assholes rolling around in it. But still, no deserts, no burqas (there are similar stuff but even today, a very small minority wear those), no fez apart from some crazies and traditional ice cream vendors in touristy areas, no camels (i haven't seen one irl but I heard there are one or two near tourist attractions and not consistently. Not in Istanbul, tho) , no we are not solely brown; in fact we are maybe one of the most mixed nations and races there are. We have people who would make Aryan brotherhood jealous. You can basically see every shade of skin tone besides African ones on Turkish people. And when I say Turkish it is different than when you say American because American is a national identity. I am talking race here. Turkish race in Turkey is majority, I don't know maybe 80 percent? Ten something percent Kurdish and remaining is combination of small minorities. Contemporary Turkish Republic Turks are so mixed we should not call ourselves Turks anymore. I am for example whiter than Arabs, browner than Europeans with a lick of Asian yellow. When abroad people seem to think I look Mexican. My travel companion 1 is Tatar Turk who looks exactly like far eastern Asian with eyes and everything and companion 2 is ginger with super pale skin. He used to live in Ireland and locals were asking her direction on the street and stuff. What funny is we are considered racially as Turks. Anyway you got my point already.

Don't take this whole thing as a reply to you. Most stuff I wrote for giving an idea of Turkey to people who read this comment thread.