Classify South Asian Football (soccer) teams please! Don't be lazy, click the link and comment.

[Ülev]

indeed Indids

[Randommembr]

indeed Indids

ALL the players? Even Iran and Afghanistan though? Did you even see the all the teams?

[Demhat]

Iran and Afghanistan are not South Asia

It's impossible to define the borders between South and Central Asia by the state borders of the regions. For example you have parts in Pakistan like Gilgit Baltistan and Pamir mountains that are located higher on the map than even most of Afghanistan and almost border Tajikistan. Should we consider that geographically as South Asia?

For me personally South Asian is India, the Punjab and Sindh parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, Sri Lanka

[Randommembr]

It's impossible to define the borders between South and Central Asia by the state borders of the regions. For example you have parts in Pakistan like Gilgit Baltistan and Pamir mountains that are located higher on the map than even most of Afghanistan and almost border Tajikistan. Should we consider that geographically as South Asia?

For me personally South Asian is India, the Punjab and Sindh parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal

It's way to complicated than that too. boundaries between provinces are funny too.For example, my city of Karachi has 7 million Pashtuns (the most on the planet). You go to my area of saddar, and the only groups really are Dawoodi Bohras and Parsis and Gujarati is widely spoken. You go to Lyari and you have a ton of Siddis. Anyways, I went of track. If Karachi has more Pashtuns and other nationalities than Sindhis, why should it not be considered part of Middle east (Iran) or Central Asia(Afghanistan) (in your opinion) like West Pakistan is? Many people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aren't even Pashtuns and there are more pashtuns in Karachi than Peshawar and Kabul. It all gets very complicated haha.
You don't consider Sri Lanka as South Asia? Maldives? Sri Lanka is almost universally considered part of South Asia.

Anyways, can you classify/taxonomise the players from all countries please?

[Demhat]

Yeah I forgot to add Sri Lanka.

[Randommembr]

Yeah I forgot to add Sri Lanka.

Well, what would you classify them as?

[Randommembr]

Bump. Still haven't got a classification.

[Kaazi]

https://www.footballpakistan.com/201...-bahrain-dawn/
Pakistani.

https://foogue.com/web/index.php/new...er--bangladesh
Bangladesh(scroll down a bit) and Sri Lanka.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usa...om/amp/2799881
Afghanistan

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dai...y/1/25301.html
India

AND LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST
https://www.buzzfeed.com/victornasci...beautiful-game
Iran.
Why tf do these people look so much better than their South Asian neighbors(barring Afghanistan who may not even be South Asian)? Hairstyles/beard styles? Is this the ideal phenotype?

Football is such a hard sport, so footballers in the subcontinent are mostly from hardworking economically backward families. It's not a leisurely sport that rich kids would play. That's why they're not as well groomed as your Persian/Iranian counterparts. Anyway, skill and strength is desirable for the footballers.

[Randommembr]

Football is such a hard sport, so footballers in the subcontinent are mostly from hardworking economically backward families. It's not a leisurely sport that rich kids would play. That's why they're not as well groomed as your Persian/Iranian counterparts. Anyway, skill and strength is desirable for the footballers.

I still believe Iranian/Med phenotype is ideal for men. Maybe North European too. This is my personal opinion.

I've read stories about all the ones from Iran and some of them come from pretty modest backgrounds too.

Anyways, taxonomy/classification please. I'll great appreciate your opinion!

[Randommembr]

Bump. Still haven't got a classification.

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