Simply because the UEFA has the best teams. Teams that are equal to Argentina and Brazil and about 7 more teams which are better or at least equal to the 3rd and 4th best CONMEBOL teams.

Though I admit that a few European nations don't play nearly as good as in the qualification or the last few world cups this time.

i don't know what you're argueing about

brasil,germany and italy are the big dogs in world cups

followed by argentina,uruguay,england, and france 

no one else has won it until you do it won't change 

I'll give that it has the most depth in talented teams. There really isn't any arguing that. They have the greatest density of talent in both national, and regular play. The increased number of international players in the regular leagues has changed the international scene in a huge way though. Mexico, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and a handful of other CONMEBOL teams whom I am not familiar with would compete just fine in the UEFA league though. Hell I'd say Mexico and USA would end up much better teams thanks to having actual competition. I doubt a CONCACAF team would top the list, but they certainly would make a good show and not end up terribly far from the top.

I am arguing about the relative strengths of the given leagues. While World Cup can show the best team at a time it cannot really show the relative strengths of a league except at a given time. During the 80s you could reference USA as one of the few countries to make it to third place in the World Cup. The team was still shit though.

Hell lets look at the examples youhave. Italy and France should, in theory, be counted as amongst the best ever. Neither has even qualified. Similarly Spain could be discounted, but they have lost 2 of their last like 50 games (incidentally USA was one of those losses). Historical strength is something to watch, but the current climate is much more competitive. I really wouldn't be surprised to see Mexico end up winning a World Cup.

this is the real list to look at though in my opinion of world cup matches played,click here if you want to see past 25

Rnk	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Av. pts	Apps.
1	Brazil	92	64	14	14	201	85	206	2.24	18
2	Germany	92	55	19	18	190	114	184	2.00	16
3	Italy	77	44	19	14	122	73	151	1.96	16
4	Argentina	65	33	13	19	113	73	112	1.72	14
5	England	55	25	17	13	74	47	92	1.67	12
6	France	51	25	10	16	95	66	85	1.67	12
7	Spain	49	22	12	15	80	55	78	1.59	12
8	Sweden	46	16	13	17	74	71	61	1.33	11
9	Netherlands	36	16	10	10	59	36	58	1.61	8
10	Russia	37	17	6	14	64	44	57	1.54	9
11	Serbia	40	16	8	16	62	54	56	1.40	10
12	Uruguay	40	15	10	15	65	56	55	1.38	10
13	Poland	31	15	5	11	44	40	50	1.61	7
14	Hungary	32	15	3	14	87	58	48	1.50	9
15	Mexico	45	11	12	22	48	82	45	1.00	13
16	Czech Republic	33	12	5	16	47	48	41	1.24	9
17	Austria	29	12	4	13	43	49	40	1.38	7
18	Belgium	36	10	9	17	46	64	39	1.08	11
19	Slovakia	30	11	5	14	44	44	38	1.27	8
20	Portugal	19	11	1	7	32	22	34	1.79	4
21	Romania	21	8	5	8	30	32	29	1.38	7
22	Switzerland	26	8	5	13	37	50	29	1.12	8
23	Chile	25	7	6	12	31	40	27	1.08	7
24	Paraguay	22	6	7	9	27	36	25	1.14	7
25	Denmark	13	7	2	4	24	18	23	1.77	3

Europan teams are underperforming this world cup. No one will deny this. Even Germany and England are not looking dominant at all.

However its a single world cup which isn't over yet does not deminish the dominance in previous world cups of Uefa teams along with Brazil and Argentina.

If UEFA teams keep sucking in 2014 and 2018 while American teams like USA and Mexico keep moving upwards, you may have a point.

what leagues are you talking about and in the 80's the usa 3rd place in the world cup,i don't understand what you mean

I agree about the last part.
But I don't know why you called the UEFA teams overrated. If you referring to the Japan - Denmark game that happened just a few moments ago, I can assure you that Denmark is probably about as strong as Ecuador or Columbia.

In my eyes they weren't the favorites in this match.

The same is true for every game of France so far this year. Only really shocked by the bad performance of Italy

lol? Stop joking please. CONMEBOL has only Brazil and Argentina that can compete for medals, while UEFA has:

Germany
Italy
France
Spain
Holland
Portugal
England

Out of the 16 teams that advance to the 2nd round in the World Cup 10 are almost always European.

And there's like a dozen European countries that didn't qualify to the World Cup 2010 but who are better than most of CONMEBOL and African nations who are in the World Cup (Croatia, Czech, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, Romania, Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria etc) .

	1930 (13)	1934 (16)	1938 (15)	1950 (13)	1954 (16)	1958 (16)	1962 (16)	1966 (16)	1970 (16)	1974 (16)	1978 (16)	1982 (24)	1986 (24)	1990 (24)	1994 (24)	1998 (32)	2002 (32)	2006 (32)	2010 (32)	TOTAL
Round 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1[11]	0	1[11]	0	0	0	0	0	1[12]	1	4
Round 2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	1[12]	0	1
Quarterfinals	—	0	0	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semifinals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Champions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

	1930 (13)	1934 (16)	1938 (15)	1950 (13)	1954 (16)	1958 (16)	1962 (16)	1966 (16)	1970 (16)	1974 (16)	1978 (16)	1982 (24)	1986 (24)	1990 (24)	1994 (24)	1998 (32)	2002 (32)	2006 (32)	2010 (32)	TOTAL
Round 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1[11]	0	1[11]	0	0	0	0	0	1[12]	1	4
Round 2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	1[12]	0	1
Quarterfinals	—	0	0	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semifinals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Champions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

	1930 (13)	1934 (16)	1938 (15)	1950 (13)	1954 (16)	1958 (16)	1962 (16)	1966 (16)	1970 (16)	1974 (16)	1978 (16)	1982 (24)	1986 (24)	1990 (24)	1994 (24)	1998 (32)	2002 (32)	2006 (32)	2010 (32)	TOTAL
Round 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1[11]	0	1[11]	0	0	0	0	0	1[12]	1	4
Round 2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	1[12]	0	1
Quarterfinals	—	0	0	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semifinals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Champions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

In the original World Cup USA came in third place. However, between 1950, and 1990 the USA failed to even qualify for the World Cup. During that time one could have used their great performance in the past to claim they were still good. However, the team was crap. You have to look at what is happening now, not what happened decades ago.

By regular leagues I mean non-national competitions. Premier leagues, MLS (lulz), and the like. There are a fair number of USA players competing quite well in various European leagues was my point. Since European leagues are, on average, much better it has lead to more talented players developer there and greater dominance on the national level. Given the ease, and frequency of playing in other continents but still be available for the national teams that advantage is being diminished.

@disolitude
Its been the last few World Cups that have started me thinking down this line. There is an ever growing number of teams that can play on a very solid level. I admit some teams are under-performing from Europe. There is no excuse for what happened with France and Italy. Other teams are playing up to their level and still not showing a dominating presence though. I am not trying to say UEFA sucks so much as other conferences have really stepped it up. AFC is even making a very good show of itself with Japan and South Korea which, historically, would have been joke additions to the World Cup.