First time a Second opinion about our third world status

May be I got and got it right. Why we are called third world. Yes we are the largest democracy, a will be economic superpower, one of few countries enjoying Nuclear power, ranked No 1 in cricket (At least till the moment I m writing this stuff), one of most corrupted country in the world and yes we do have Mallika Sherawat too. But buddy that’s not enough to be known by everyone on this planate earth. Still we r missing something, something really big and imperative.
Bingo…. it is the football world cup, the most popular affair on earth, and look where we are. we are just watching and trying to be a part of it by cheering for the county to whom either we can pronounce better like BRAZIL (by any other reason) or we manage to recognize a poplar player with its belonging country as a package, like Wayne Rooney with England or Lionel Messi with Argentina. Isn’t it??
U will defiantly say no if I ask u whether u have ever feel presence of countries like Argentina, URUGUEY, Portugal México, Algeria with no game of football associated at all (u can SMS ur ans ). We are familiar with them just because they play football and play well enough that now they are performing live on stage of football world cup but they are not to us cas we could have never succeed to mark our presence in any of the big football event. So I feel our absence in this “world of football” may be the one of the big reason for our status of third world.
Like a religion, the game of football having its presence at every corner of the world as it is the most admired game on the earth. Even for some countries it is like food, shelter and a football jersey, and thats all. So As per my estimation to get rid of this of our so called identity crises and to be known to many countries on both side of globe, we ought to try hard to be a part of this carnival called football world cup... what u say????