Digitarius
Senior Squad
I think this is what it should be:
CONCACAF - 3
South America - 4
Europe - 14
Hosts - 1
Asia - 4
Africa - 5
Oceania - 0
Play-off Europe v South America - 1
First off, I think Europe has had many places ripped away from them in recent years and they should get some back. South America contains 3 World Champions and deserves at least 4 places.
CONCACAF has always performed relatively well in the World Cup and in this World Cup have shown that they can live with the best. They deserve their 3 places.
Africa can remain with 5 places as that is, I believe, plenty for them. If they can have 2 teams impressing in the same tournament then maybe Fifa shall increase their allocations.
Asia receives 4 after one of their teams reached the semis, but any more would be ridiculous. China and Saudi did very badly, but China were in a group where the 3rd place team and Champions were, and Saudi were just crap.
Oceania deserves nothing. They are the smallest federation and has teams that my local pub side will fancy a crack on. Giving them an automatic spot will mean an automatic spot for Australia.
What Oceania deserves is local qualification to the final qualifying stage of Asian qualifying. Two teams (i.e. Aussieland and New Zealand every time) will move to the final group stage in Asia. If they can get through that, great, if they can't, it's time for cricket.
CONCACAF - 3
South America - 4
Europe - 14
Hosts - 1
Asia - 4
Africa - 5
Oceania - 0
Play-off Europe v South America - 1
First off, I think Europe has had many places ripped away from them in recent years and they should get some back. South America contains 3 World Champions and deserves at least 4 places.
CONCACAF has always performed relatively well in the World Cup and in this World Cup have shown that they can live with the best. They deserve their 3 places.
Africa can remain with 5 places as that is, I believe, plenty for them. If they can have 2 teams impressing in the same tournament then maybe Fifa shall increase their allocations.
Asia receives 4 after one of their teams reached the semis, but any more would be ridiculous. China and Saudi did very badly, but China were in a group where the 3rd place team and Champions were, and Saudi were just crap.
Oceania deserves nothing. They are the smallest federation and has teams that my local pub side will fancy a crack on. Giving them an automatic spot will mean an automatic spot for Australia.
What Oceania deserves is local qualification to the final qualifying stage of Asian qualifying. Two teams (i.e. Aussieland and New Zealand every time) will move to the final group stage in Asia. If they can get through that, great, if they can't, it's time for cricket.