Why is football and soccer famous in south America but not cricket?

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

Cricket is not well known because South America was not colonized by the British. Cricket is a British sport and when the British colonized other nations like Australia and South Africa they brought cricket there.

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