It could be a culture thing, football isn't as big in those countries as it is in Europe, Africa and South America.
Lots of Asain countries (Indian etc) prefer cricket do have loads of cricket players.
Yeah I think it probably is. The problem is people get bogged down in the is it racist debate. I wish it wouldn’t as I think there should be a general curiosity in stuff like this. Ultimately a country should harness its resources to the max. Like we should be tapping into that Asian resource and producing even more quality footballers for our country. As one example.
Sadly because it usually comes back to ah the white people are racist which is just utter bollocks to me and stifles / biases the act of actually looking into this stuff and prevents us optimising our human capital!