When will a team from North America, Asia or Africa win the men’s World Cup? | Soccer

We are now a year of World Cup. European teams and South America are still dominated by the championship. But any continent without a winner (Asia, Africa, Central and North America, and I think Oceania) has the best opportunity to raise the cup first?

– Stacy

This is a great question and a question that brings a wide range of factors. To start, what is the difference Expanding the tournament Made? On the one hand, extension of the championship so that the winner must get eight games instead of seven it is likely to make shocks less likely, but on the other hand, the additional row exit round adds another layer of randomness. Even with four rounds in a knockout, most heroes usually had at least one game of great danger-a victory over translations, or one of the goals winning after an additional time. I think winning all the five exit games in 90 minutes will prove very rare, but the possibility is still that the winner be one of the main European powers – France, Spain, Germany, England, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands – or one of the adults from South America – legs and Brazil.

In a similar note, the weight of other Confederation numbers should help: 15 of 32 qualifiers in 2022 were outside UEFA and Conmebol; In 2026 either 25 or 26 of 48 will be. This would increase the chance of a side that collides in an exceptional form in a timely manner.

But this is not only about a confederation. Between 2006 and 2018, he was 13 of 16 of the semi -finals of the World Cup European. There was a clear feeling in the game that the major Western European countries were in their influence on industrial youth production – to the extent that the majority of France was trained in 2022, for example, in France. Add a rich periodic in which the best youth of the nation can acquire exceptional and immediate education, and the feature of Western Europe is clear. Argentina concluded this trend in 2022, partly due to the brilliance of Lionel Messi, in part due to its wonderful reserves in training talents (seven of the ten countries are managed by the Argentine, without the account of óscar ibáñez, which was born in Argentina but they are now capabilities).

But to return to the details of the question: the money helps, so the United States of America, Mexico and Canada have a little chance of success at least. Africa has talent but football – and it is clearly generalized – suffers from poverty and corruption. Morocco showed its ability in Qatar, and if, for example, Nigeria or Senegal managed to find an enlightened coach who can overcome all political issues at the same time as they had a talented generation, there is no reason that there could be an African winner – although he does not feel the chic.

Perhaps Asia is probably, although we may only talk about three countries at the present time. Japan South Korea was the regular World Cup qualifiers, and its level has improved significantly, there Money for investmentA deep root passion for the game, and the players gained increasing experience in the best clubs.

Or that there is Saudi Arabia, which is a traditional power in the Asian game, and the flight attendants in 2034. We have not yet seen what the effect of every Saudi PIF investment in football, but money, a political will for success, must give them improvement of the league at least an external opportunity with the home feature in eight years.

As American, I challenge anyone to argue that the 1994 World Cup shirt is not the best in football history. Do you have any personal preferences?

– He died

I admit that I find a bit of Jenny. I hate excess shirts, and I hope Sunderland will return to black socks, but I am not sure of any shirts I really love. I was talking to a friend about this on the way to The final championship championshipLooking at blocs of red and white everywhere while we were wearing a very neutral examination shirts. We wondered whether it was because in our training years of games, away from games, especially in the late eighties and early 1990s, it was useful to be able to mix in the background if any violence began.

But I assume that if it was pressed, I always liked the simple Adidas, in the early eighties, and a normal color with three lines along the sleeves-Western Western goalkeeper in particular.

What will prevail: the next tactical development, or the rise of the owner of the national state in European and English football?

Andrew

I don’t think you can separate the two. Ownership, whether the state or otherwise, necessarily creates the conditions in which the game is played. So, Pep Guardiola was asked, for example, to put his ideal environment in Manchester City, and the result was six league titles in seven seasons. The city owners had the financial strength to attract him to the club, to give him the facilities he needed and provide a very high -level team. As a result, a compromise on his principles as a manager in a less wealthy club was not needed.

Or take Paris Saint -Germain. The coach was undermined after the club insisted on signing the main stars, which may have been good for the brand, but he left the team on the field who looks clearly unbalanced. Once the club changed the approach, Luis Enrique was able to assemble the side that won the Champions League. What was necessary was the money to buy a good enough band, but also ready for the owners to allow the sports director and manager to collect a coherent aspect free of celebrities who were previously burdened.

I would like my age-I have seen football for nearly 70 years-but I really miss the old wings, and play the “right” wing, overcoming their defender from abroad and the oldest crosses for their attackers. It seems that the issue of the inverted wings is that “from the inside” to their strongest foot increases their chances of photography and recording. It is now de rigueur that the two wings are turned. Is the possibility of scoring inverted goals from the wings by entering into the interior compensation for a fewer effective crosses that they make for their attackers?

– Derek

I agree that there is still something very aesthetically about an interview forward, as there was a cross roaming with a head- Alexander Essak’s goal From Cross Anthony Gordon to Newcastle against Arsenal last season, for example – but I think the ship has sailed.

Herbert Chapman was arguing that the focus on crossing the wings for the attackers was incomplete for 100 years, and it appears that most of the modern theory agreed with it. The preference now is either for the humiliating players who cut Infield – Peter Taylor was a pioneer in England, but Dennis Tawart and others did it also – or to work on the ball to Goalline for a low reduction – Manchester City’s classic goal in a few seasons before.

One of the reasons that are widely cut now is the explosion in attacking the right -back, who now offers most of the show. The full back can enter into the interior, says Trint Alexander-Arnold or Joao is canceled, but this is relatively rare, and if the full back is outside, the wide attacker goes inside to create a space for him. I think there is also a recognition that the applicants are forward, often against the foot of the weakest defender, very difficult to fight – hence it seems to be a height in the goal, Yamal, he scored every week, and the ball fails in the distant corner.

On this day …

Kevin Kegan may have been the first English player, and certainly in the post -war years, he was successful in moving to a European giant. He left Liverpool in 1977 to Hamburg, where he won the league in 1978-1979 and was twice a European football player for this year. He also marketed himself with an extraordinary passion for the English players at the time, to become a well -faithful celebrity. On June 9, 1979, he released his second, but at a single distance his most successful song, its head in love.

He was released first individual, it is not easy, in 1972, just one year after his transfer to Liverpool from Scunthorpe and did not leave a very big impression. But the heel head did not reach 31 in the UK plans, not 10 in Germany. This is where nervous behavior should be seen away. Kejan gave a preview of the song Das Aktoel sports. Germany looks very good, but this thought soon fades with its performance …

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