Scisca said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Barozi said:
It's the exact opposite in football though. Olympics is utterly unimportant and the Euros are the next best thing to the World Cup.
No player would voluntarily leave out playing the Euros.
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Exactly. The Euros is a huge tournament. No team would ever think about not sending their best players to it. Olympic football is pretty much just for young players or almost retired players.
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Nobody cares about football at the Olympic games now, it's for youngsters, but Euro is on par with the World Cup. Suggesting what Chris Hu said is absurd. The level of football at Euro is even higher than on the World Cup, since you only get 16 best teams from Europe, so every game counts, there are no automatic wins, which still happen in the WC. You can't lose focus for one moment, cause otherwise you're out. The main difference thus far was that the number of teams is smaller, thus we get fewer games, but with the current reform and adding extra teams, Euro is going to grow even more. Now you get 24 best European teams (which is good, cause thus far there were always great teams left out). I think it's just a matter of time before we start inviting extra top 8 teams from outside Europe and turn Euro into the best tournament in the world, without any crappy teams that nobody cares about. I mean, wouldn't you rather have Sweden and other solid European teams that can put up a fight instead of Cameroon, Honduras, etc.? Of course you would. UEFA can kick FIFA in the butt and kick it hard.
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Meh, the FIBA Basketball World Cup is getting better also. Especially since they are going to move the year in which it is played to not be the same year as the FIFA World Cup. Plus in the last couple of tornaments the US has actually send decenet squats to the tournament not the C or D level squads that participated in previous tournaments.
