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Post by bogan on Nov 23, 2021 10:08:30 GMT -5
“ 32 years ago today in American professional soccer:
USMNT qualify for a 24 team World Cup Final in 1990 - way before MLS.
We didn’t qualify for a 32 team World Cup Final in 2018.”
-Ted Westervelt
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Post by bogan on Nov 23, 2021 10:10:47 GMT -5
…one reason I lack patience with the current performance of the USMNT.
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Post by atlutd17 on Nov 29, 2021 10:03:03 GMT -5
Not to mention the fact CONCACAF is -by far- the easiest confederation to qualify for the WC finals, based on the number of spots and relative competition.
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Post by mightydawg on Nov 29, 2021 11:44:31 GMT -5
“ 32 years ago today in American professional soccer: USMNT qualify for a 24 team World Cup Final in 1990 - way before MLS. We didn’t qualify for a 32 team World Cup Final in 2018.” -Ted Westervelt Even more amazing is that in 1990 CONCACAF only had 2 spots in the world cup. |
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Post by mightydawg on Nov 29, 2021 11:51:04 GMT -5
Not to mention the fact CONCACAF is -by far- the easiest confederation to qualify for the WC finals, based on the number of spots and relative competition. You really think that CONCACAF at 3.5 spots is easier than Africa with 5 spots and Asia with 4.5 spots? Beginning in 2026 and the increase to 48 teams, the spots will be UEFA 16 Africa 9 Asia 8 Oceania 1 CONCACAF 6 South America 6 |
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Post by bogan on Nov 29, 2021 12:21:10 GMT -5
Not to mention the fact CONCACAF is -by far- the easiest confederation to qualify for the WC finals, based on the number of spots and relative competition. You really think that CONCACAF at 3.5 spots is easier than Africa with 5 spots and Asia with 4.5 spots? Beginning in 2026 and the increase to 48 teams, the spots will be UEFA 16 Africa 9 Asia 8 Oceania 1 CONCACAF 6 South America 6 🤔 you may have a point there with Africa getting 5 spots and Asia getting 4.5. But CONCACAF is still pretty easy outside of Mexico and lately Canada. |
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Post by footyfan on Nov 29, 2021 12:38:29 GMT -5
You really think that CONCACAF at 3.5 spots is easier than Africa with 5 spots and Asia with 4.5 spots? Beginning in 2026 and the increase to 48 teams, the spots will be UEFA 16 Africa 9 Asia 8 Oceania 1 CONCACAF 6 South America 6 🤔 you may have a point there with Africa getting 5 spots and Asia getting 4.5. But CONCACAF is still pretty easy outside of Mexico and lately Canada. Conmebol getting equal spots as concacaf is downright silly. |
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Post by bogan on Nov 29, 2021 12:46:27 GMT -5
🤔 you may have a point there with Africa getting 5 spots and Asia getting 4.5. But CONCACAF is still pretty easy outside of Mexico and lately Canada. Conmebol getting equal spots as concacaf is downright silly. And Europe is terribly underrepresented with the amount of talent that they have. |
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Post by footyfan on Nov 29, 2021 13:27:03 GMT -5
I get that DR Congo may not be great, but Ivory Coast didn't qualify out of CAF.
Their potential starting 10 field players play for:
Boly-Wolverhampton
Bailly- Manchester United
Cornet- Burnley
Aurier- Villareal
Seri- Fulham
Kessie- Milan
Traore- Sassuolo
Sangare- Eindhoven
Pepe- Arsenal
Haller- Ajax
Tell me again who is on Panama or Costa Rica?
Or US, Mex, Canada for that matter?
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Post by mightydawg on Nov 29, 2021 14:18:54 GMT -5
🤔 you may have a point there with Africa getting 5 spots and Asia getting 4.5. But CONCACAF is still pretty easy outside of Mexico and lately Canada. Conmebol getting equal spots as concacaf is downright silly. Not when there are only 10 countries in the confederation. That means that 60% of the countries will qualify for the world cup. Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Paraguay, and Uruguay will be fighting for 2 spots. |
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Post by mightydawg on Nov 29, 2021 14:24:13 GMT -5
I get that DR Congo may not be great, but Ivory Coast didn't qualify out of CAF. Their potential starting 10 field players play for: Boly-Wolverhampton Bailly- Manchester United Cornet- Burnley Aurier- Villareal Seri- Fulham Kessie- Milan Traore- Sassuolo Sangare- Eindhoven Pepe- Arsenal Haller- Ajax Tell me again who is on Panama or Costa Rica? Or US, Mex, Canada for that matter? If you look at the FIFA world rankings, the number 4 team for CONCACAF is Costa Rica at #49. The 6th team from CAF is #45. The 5th team from AFC is 48th. Seems like they have the spots divided pretty fairly based on world rankings. Starting in 2026, everyone is getting in which will be a lot of watered down soccer in the group stages. |
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Post by footyfan on Dec 1, 2021 12:59:28 GMT -5
I get that DR Congo may not be great, but Ivory Coast didn't qualify out of CAF. Their potential starting 10 field players play for: Boly-Wolverhampton Bailly- Manchester United Cornet- Burnley Aurier- Villareal Seri- Fulham Kessie- Milan Traore- Sassuolo Sangare- Eindhoven Pepe- Arsenal Haller- Ajax Tell me again who is on Panama or Costa Rica? Or US, Mex, Canada for that matter? If you look at the FIFA world rankings, the number 4 team for CONCACAF is Costa Rica at #49. The 6th team from CAF is #45. The 5th team from AFC is 48th. Seems like they have the spots divided pretty fairly based on world rankings. Starting in 2026, everyone is getting in which will be a lot of watered down soccer in the group stages. If I look at the FIFA rankings, US is #12, Mex is #14. Canada is #40 and Qatar #51. Qatar went undefeated in Concacaf Gold Cup until losing 0-1 to US, in the US. They outshot US 16-8; missed a pk; Matt Turner stood on his head; and it still took an 86' goal for US to avoid extra time. Canada will likely finish top in Concacaf World cup qualifying, are undefeated in the last 3 games v Mex(W,D)/US(D) and play home v US in 2nd match. US is also ranked ahead of SUI(13), CRO(15), WAL(19), SEN(20), PER(22), SRB(23) Tell me why am I looking at FIFA rankings again? They are ridiculous. Only good thing about 2026 is that it will show how comparatively poor/good the usual outsiders are among continental groups. |
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Post by atlutd17 on Dec 9, 2021 20:20:25 GMT -5
Not to mention the fact CONCACAF is -by far- the easiest confederation to qualify for the WC finals, based on the number of spots and relative competition. You really think that CONCACAF at 3.5 spots is easier than Africa with 5 spots and Asia with 4.5 spots? Beginning in 2026 and the increase to 48 teams, the spots will be UEFA 16 Africa 9 Asia 8 Oceania 1 CONCACAF 6 South America 6 There are 54 African countries some of which are very good. Watch CAF next month of you can and you'll understand. But I think at least 3 spots, one from each of Africa, Asia and CONCACAF should have gone to UEFA. UEFA & South America share all the WC Champions & Finalists. |
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