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Why do the South Americans get byes in the world cup play-offs?
Why do the South Americans get byes in the world cup play-offs?
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mexico have been that bad in qualifying up to this evening they would've had trouble if they were the only side in the group.
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Bore off - the lot of you
 imagine a world cup with fixtures such as Romania v Italy Greece v Denmark Bulgaria v Norway Russia v Sweden Poland v Ukraine Czech Rep v Turkey Portugal v Croatia no bugger would watch it ,boring enough as it is Atleast Ecuador or Costa Rica may throw up an upset or something slightly different |
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on the subjest of qualification ,
i'd say around 50% of western european teams reguarly qualify |
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Coachbuster you basically just described the euros
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Dont forget that some federations such as CONCACAF are getting these places in return for supporting Blatter and voting for him to stay in power.
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That wont change while he still needs them to retain his position.
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Nothing wrong in Jordan v Uruguay, 1.74 Uruguay/Uruguay.That was a very fair price!
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If it was properly done the World Cup would comprise of something like this -
Spain France Italy Belgium Netherlands England Portugal Brazil Argentina USA Mexico Costa Rica Panama Honduras Trinidad & Tobago Australia New Zealand Tahiti China Japan Iran Iraq Saudi Arabia North Korea South Korea Morocco Nigeria Ivory Coast Ghana South Africa Tunisia Cameroon Wouldn't that be more interesting? |
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How about less qualifying regions. Merge North and South America, and merge Asia, Africa and Oceania while keeping Europe.
Europe - 16 spots American - 8 spots Asia/Africa/Oceania - 8 spots |
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They couldn't do it because each continent has their own organisation running them.
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I do agree though, that North and South American qualifying should be merged.
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I cannot believe that people are looking at South America as the continent where places whould be cut. It's obviously North America & the Caribbean, isn't it?
Looking at the teams that have officially qualified so far, we have: South America: (Brazil), Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, vs: North America: USA, Honduras, Costa Rica. Put that lot all into the same group and how do you think the North Americans would do? A similar argument could be made for Asia, but at least it contains about 60% of the world's population. |
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how about a system that studies how well each qualifying nation from each continent fares in the world cup and if they fail to meet up to a certain standard, they lose a spot. they already do it with champions league (as in, the prem was facing having only 3 qualifying due to city, united and chelsea all going out in the group stage a few years ago)
so if only one of usa, honduras, costa rica and mexico get past the group stage, they lose a spot? or would that never really work out? |
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It makes sense, lots of sense, and sounds a good idea. Though I don't know how FIFA voting works - like turkeys voting for Christmas.
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Heaven forbid, I think the current system is fine. Uruguay proved what a joke it would be to invite more Asian teams.
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After Colombia winning in Belgium and Chile winning at Wembley, perhaps we should be looking at giving South America more WC places
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