Which continent deserves a WC place

[robbo2000]

i think Africa deserves it maybe that bcoz i'm egyptian but look
in asia ksa and china were the poorest team
in south america they already have about half of the teams
in europe i think they have enough
australia (ofc) only australia plays football (real football)
so giving a place for them is just giving a place forever for the australians
north america i think they deserve a spot 2 s o i think IMO the way is to take give a place 2 africa
and taking off the two half places of europe and asia(1/2+1/2=1)
and give it to the concacaf
what's ur opinions 4 sure it's different

 

[LuckyLuke]

I think time zone is extremely important.. I don't want to watch games in the morning again...

 

[bmpv666]

removing places from Europe??
U must be kidding...there are a lot of good European teams who were left out of the WC, many of these teams are far better than Costa Rica, Tunisia, South Africa, etc, wich quallified for the WC! Netherlands, Ukraine, Norway, Greece, U name it...

As U see Europe should deserve even more spots at WC, but I think the WC should be left as it is right now

 

[Cappia]

Originally posted by LuckyLuke
I think time zone is extremely important.. I don't want to watch games in the morning again...

You didnt understand his problem...
He wants to see more teams from Africa in the next WC's...

But I dont aggree with him...Tunisia,South Africa,Nigeria and Cameroon didnt qualify from their groups...And Senegal? With a lot of luck(remember Uruguay game)

Asian football is growing...I think the countries like Iran,Iraq,Saudi,Kuwait,UAE will do cool things for Asia (because they have money to burn )

 

[Cappia]

Originally posted by bmpv666
removing places from Europe??
U must be kidding...there are a lot of good European teams who were left out of the WC, many of these teams are far better than Costa Rica, Tunisia, South Africa, etc, wich quallified for the WC! Netherlands, Ukraine, Norway, Greece, U name it...

As U see Europe should deserve even more spots at WC, but I think the WC should be left as it is right now

totally aggree...

Asia: S.Arabia & China, they are playing like English Second Division teams..(the worst teams of WC)
North America: Costa Rica=an average team of English First Division..
Africa: Tunisia & Cameroon=the same as Costa Rica..
South America: Ecuador=bonus team from S.America like Slovenia from Europa..

We dont want to see the teams that are playing street football...

Originally posted by bmpv666
removing places from Europe??
U must be kidding...there are a lot of good European teams who were left out of the WC, many of these teams are far better than Costa Rica, Tunisia, South Africa, etc, wich quallified for the WC! Netherlands, Ukraine, Norway, Greece, U name it...

As U see Europe should deserve even more spots at WC, but I think the WC should be left as it is right now

totally aggree...

Asia: S.Arabia & China, they are playing like English Second Division teams..(the worst teams of WC)
North America: Costa Rica=an average team of English First Division..
Africa: Tunisia & Cameroon=the same as Costa Rica..
South America: Ecuador=bonus team from S.America like Slovenia from Europa..

We dont want to see the teams that are playing street football...

 

[monkee]

Teams missing from this world cup by continent:

Africa: Morocco, Egypt, Mali, etc.

Asia: Iran, UAE, etc.

Oceania: ermm, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, etc.

North America: Jamaica, Canada, etc.

South America: Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, etc.

Europe: Holland, Norway, Yugoslavia, Finland, etc.

That's why I go for Europe. I'd rather see Holland play Norway than Australia play Jamaica.

 

[Brennan1469]

It seems the only CONCACAF team you guys are mentioning in the WC is Costa Rica. Well don't get too ahead of yourselfs boosting European teams and Bashing CONCACAF teams. Lets not forget the United States beat Portugal(3rd/4th in Euro2000), and Poland, and then Mexico beat Croatia and finished ahead of Italy. Then in Africa, Senegal eliminated the defending champions, and Cameroon missed the Round of 16 by one point and South Africa was eliminated by goal difference. And not to mention Nigeria eliminating Spain at France 98. As for the Asian teams, yes China and Saudi Arabia were big disappointments, but Japan and Korea both did much better than expected.

Here's how I think it should go for WC2006:

*AFC=5 spots
CAF=3 spots
CONCACAF=3 spots
CONMEBOL=5 spots
UEFA=15 spots + Germany

*AFC and OFC would be combined into one so that Australia has a fair but challenging chance to make the World Cup.


Personally I think the World Cup qualifying and everything should be formatted just like the Champions League, but for the World Cup it should be based on their continental championships. It works like this: a certain amount of teams from each continental tournament automatically qualify for the World Cup based on the results of each tournament. Then another batch of teams from each continental tournament would be put in a big qualifying tournament to determine the rest of the teams at the World Cup. This would have been good for WC2002 because Canada would have gotten an automatic spot .
And also the World Cup finals should be formatted like this:

Round 1: 8 groups of 4 teams each, top two teams moving on to Round 2.

Round 2: 4 groups of 4 teams each, top two teams moving on to the quarter-finals.

Quarterfinals, Semifinals, 3rd/4th Place and Final would go on as normal.

This would result in more World Cup games, and Round 2 would be really exciting because you would probably have two or three World Cup contenders in the same group.

 

[Rising Sun]

Yeah, maybe they should give the 32 spots top Europe since they play good soccer, sucky teams like Costa Rica who only tied with the 3rd Place of the World and scored the most goals and had the most shots on goal made to the World Champions, gee how sad is THAT? They shouldn't be allowed to play!

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I actually agree with Brennen's system. haviing 2 group rouns would be better than the round of Sixteen, and mre exiting. A for more spots, Africa should have a few more spts, as well as Oceania.

 

[robbo2000]

Originally posted by bmpv666
removing places from Europe??
U must be kidding...there are a lot of good European teams who were left out of the WC, many of these teams are far better than Costa Rica, Tunisia, South Africa, etc, wich quallified for the WC! Netherlands, Ukraine, Norway, Greece, U name it...

As U see Europe should deserve even more spots at WC, but I think the WC should be left as it is right now

1st of all i said removing 1/2 place that could go 2 asia 2
2nd u said u prefered to b left as it is but u know(i'm sure u know) that there will be an additional spot an a continent must have it
3rd ukraine norway and greece never showed a world class football (remember greece in 94)
Africa has about 55 country so it's not fair only 5 from 55
while sa has 5 out of ten
and there is teams also in europe didn't show something
like poland and slovenia
in Africa the only team was tunisia who played badly
and u know everybody knew it coz there was a lot of changes in the team and if u saw the africa nations cup in 2002 u would know that tunisia was eliminated from the 1st round without scoring a single goal
it's called the world cup not the euro/south american cup

 

[Internazionale]

It wouldn't be a matter for me which continent deserves a WC place. I see there has been a balance now amongst continents even though Saudi Arabia & China lost all 3 matches.

 

[Han]

You can think of a totally different formula: the one Icehockey is using.
They divided all countries in the world in A-countries, B-countries, C-countries etc.
Then they hold for each division world championships and in the case of the B- and C-countries they have promotions to higher groups for the first 3-4 or so ( don't know exactly).
This way you have great world champoinships in all groups!
And it doesn't matter what continent you live; it's divided by strength....

 

[Jono82]

How the hell can ANY of you justify HALF the places going to Europe, HALF of South America at the tournament and then still want more?!

I cannot see the logic here!!!

How can you deny Oceania a place in favour of MORE European or South American teams?!

When their performances (with the exception of Germany & Brazil) at the tournament do not warrant further placings

Lets have a look at the final 8...

Europe: England, Turkey, Germany, Spain - With Spain and England Knocked out in the Quarters, Turkey 3rd
S.America: Brazil - Winners
N.America: USA - Knocked out in Qtr Finals
Asia: Korea - Semi-Finalists
Africa: Senegal - Knocked out in Qtr Finals

 

[LaBrujita]

Originally posted by robbo2000


1st of all i said removing 1/2 place that could go 2 asia 2
2nd u said u prefered to b left as it is but u know(i'm sure u know) that there will be an additional spot an a continent must have it
3rd ukraine norway and greece never showed a world class football (remember greece in 94)
Africa has about 55 country so it's not fair only 5 from 55
while sa has 5 out of ten
and there is teams also in europe didn't show something
like poland and slovenia
in Africa the only team was tunisia who played badly
and u know everybody knew it coz there was a lot of changes in the team and if u saw the africa nations cup in 2002 u would know that tunisia was eliminated from the 1st round without scoring a single goal
it's called the world cup not the euro/south american cup

Well as much as we'd all like to use that logic... it just doesn't work.
You want the as close as possible to the BEST 32 teams in the world - yet at the same time giving representation to all areas of the world. Unfortunately the game has only recently been developing in ASIA, AFRICA, NORTH AMERICA, AUSTRALIA to be on par with the two MAJOR soccer continents: Europe and South America.
Using your logic, why isn't there an Antarctica spot? I mean, ****, it's the WORLD CUP shouldn't all continents get the same opportunities? no.
It shouldn't be looked at as continents... it should be simply representing all parts o the world with relative intelligence to have very equal chances for all teams AT THE WORLD CUp as well as qualifying.
It's a crime the dutch weren't in the WC, it's NOT A CRIME that canada wasn't in the WC. Despite having so many european teams, that is where soccer was born and where it has developed across the continent.
Maybe in 10 years the balance of soccer will be different (as we saw that could be happenign with the results of this cup) but as it stands now, there are two power continents.. and it only makes sense they get more spots.

 

[emmer]

my opinion, for wc2006:

AFC+OFC: 4
CAF: 4
CONCACAF: 3
CONMEBOL: 5
UEFA: 15



or CONMEBOL with 4 spots - and one spot would be decided between the 5th place from CAF and the 5th place from CONMEBOL.

 

[mns]

there should be more places for south america, europe has enough, but I still don't know why does fifa want to give a place for oceania, are there countries that actualy play football there?

 

[emmer]

UEFA and CONMEBOL are leading the poll

 

[JTNY]

Well, I think that it should stay exactly the same. Except, Australia be entered into the Asian qualifying to be fairer to other Oceanic countries. Direct qualification would mean Aussies getting thru each time. Still, without Australia other countries like Vanuata and New Zealand get chances. This way it is fairer for everyone. I also believe that if a continent had to get another spot it should be South America, they have a lot to offer. Compared to UEFA, they get not many spots, and teams in CONMEBOL are quite good anyway.

 

[adembroski]

I'm from North America, I _should_ be the first to defend CONCACAF, but I don't think Costa Rica should have been there. Perhaps not even US should have, we didn't really have that good of a qualifier.

I would almost suggest dropping Concacaf down to 2.

 

[danza108]

Direct Qualification should not be given to Oceania, it would be a free ride for us Aussies. Its all because OFC is very weak. I suggest split AFC, wif one half east n the other west. THen place OFC is the eastern side.
Then give:
UEFA 14 + germany (Cut one since germany is hosting)
COMMEBOL 5 (Since BRasil won)
CONCACAF 4 (They were undefeat until costa rica played brasil n USA played poland)
CAF 4 (They were very dissapointing)
West AFC 1 (Saudis were the worst in the WC)
East AFC 3 (Korea were brilliant)

And get ride of the playoff situations.... coz the different continents playe different styles of football... so save that for the WC to watch the contrasting styles

 

[Paul]

Oceania deserves a direct qualificatio spot . . . !

gees what does Australia have to do to get to the wc?