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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 28, 2018 17:33:13 GMT
Europe: 10 out of 14 (Iceland, Germany, Serbia and Poland missing out) South America: 4 out of 5 (only Peru dropping out) Central/North America: 1 out of 3 (Mexico) Asia: 1 out of 5 (Japan making it through) Africa: 0 out of 5
But of course when the number of participants is increased to 48, most of the new spots will go to Africa and Asia. Makes perfect sense.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 28, 2018 18:01:40 GMT
Europe: 10 out of 14 (Iceland, Germany, Serbia and Poland missing out) South America: 4 out of 5 (only Peru dropping out) Central/North America: 1 out of 3 (Mexico) Asia: 1 out of 5 (Japan making it through) Africa: 0 out of 5
But of course when the number of participants is increased to 48, most of the new spots will go to Africa and Asia. Makes perfect sense.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jun 28, 2018 18:07:28 GMT
For the first time since 1982, no African team advances from the group stage.
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Post by NJtoTX on Jun 28, 2018 19:00:28 GMT
For the first time since 1982, no African team advances from the group stage. Senegal yellow-carded out. Did African teams get an inordinate number of yellows? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 22:10:22 GMT
This format is absolutely perfect, and I can't wait for utter greed to ruin it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 22:38:03 GMT
For the first time since 1982, no African team advances from the group stage. Senegal yellow-carded out. Did African teams get an inordinate number of yellows? Belgian tv showed the Senegalese yellow cards, definitely not inordinate, one of them probably should have been red. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 28, 2018 22:59:25 GMT
48 teams is a horrible idea anyway, no matter what continent they're from.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 29, 2018 4:51:21 GMT
I can sort of see the idea of giving Africa more slots, regardless of performances this WC. But Asia ? Anymore than 5 and you are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Iran, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia qualified this time. The next “rung” is Syria, UAE, China and Uzbekistan. FIFA seriously want these clowns to get a start ahead of Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, BIH, Slovenia...
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 29, 2018 5:06:04 GMT
I can sort of see the idea of giving Africa more slots, regardless of performances this WC. But Asia ? Anymore than 5 and you are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Iran, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia qualified this time. The next “rung” is Syria, UAE, China and Uzbekistan. FIFA seriously want these clowns to get a start ahead of Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, BIH, Slovenia... Qatar has already qualified so it can only get worse. Seriously, even Azerbaijan is far better than most of Asian trash. That said if the bad Asian countries were to qualify then I do like to see southeast Asian countries rather than Arab countries. |
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 29, 2018 5:16:15 GMT
I can sort of see the idea of giving Africa more slots, regardless of performances this WC. But Asia ? Anymore than 5 and you are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Iran, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia qualified this time. The next “rung” is Syria, UAE, China and Uzbekistan. FIFA seriously want these clowns to get a start ahead of Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, BIH, Slovenia... Qatar has already qualified so it can only get worse. Seriously, even Azerbaijan is far better than most of Asian trash. That said if the bad Asian countries were to qualify then I do like to see southeast Asian countries rather than Arab countries. Thailand is okay, but not great. Indonesia is a basket case, and Vietnam, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines are all quite a significant distance behind the West Asian nations in terms of quality and development. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 29, 2018 5:28:30 GMT
We all know what it's about though: getting China into every tourney and ensuring the US don't miss again. Regardless of how much money they make from this event, and US and China and that's big coin. If they could get 1 billion Indian and 300 million Indonesian eyeballs on the WC they'd be up for that too.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 29, 2018 5:32:26 GMT
We all know what it's about though: getting China into every tourney and ensuring the US don't miss again. Regardless of how much money they make from this event, and US and China and that's big coin. If they could get 1 billion Indian and 300 million Indonesian eyeballs on the WC they'd be up for that too. No India please. I don't want humiliation of 18-0 or something like that defeat. Our great Hockey squad beat America 24-1 in Olympics. That is still a record in International hockey to the best of my knowledge. I don't want India to be on receiving end of such an embarrassment even if it be in football. |
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