Scisca said:
Up until this year Euro was much more stacked than the WC, there are so many crappy teams from Africa, Asia and Oceania in the WC and quite a few quality Euopean teams not present, that it's a no contest. We lack those 4-5 top teams from Conmebol, but it's still a good trade-off, since we lose all the chaff. That's also the reason why getting out of the group on WC isn't anything incredible, there are too many random teams there. And after that stage the solid teams were consistently eliminating the spontanious latinos. Conmebol is easily the second best region, but your defence... Why do you all refuse to play defence!? Maybe Argentina and Uruguay are the two teams that try to play it (Italian genes? ). You'd be much better off if you focused on it the way we do. It's what sets us apart, really. Seriously, who cares about confederations cup? Do they even air it on tv? |
Chile and Uruguay are the ones that play defense more competently but they have little Italian influence; they don't play 5-3-2.
African teams last WC showed a lot of potential but were spendthrift in the last third of the field; Algeria and Ghana put on very good shows.
There are many datas that go into Fifa ranking and it's not just international performance.