The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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Slimebeast said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Well there's a few reasons for that. Money is one of the big ones, there just isn't anywhere near as much money in football outside of Europe (and to a lesser extent South America). Plus there isn't as much interest in football outside of Europe/South America either, a lot of the countries in N. America or Asia that could invest a decent amount of money in to football prefer to spend it on developing other sports instead.

But if Uruguay, Chile and Argentina can be producing elite talent year after year, why not other countries with similar economies and interest in football? Like Colombia, Peru, Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Iran, Tunisia, Saudi-Arabia, Algeria, Marocco, Egypt, South Africa and Turkey.

And if you consider how damn talented black players are genetically (in France, Belgium, England, Portugal and Holland the black population is only 1-2% but they make up 20-30% of all the professional football players) one would think that at least a couple of Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast and Cameroon would take steps like Brazil and Mexico did as poor nations in the past and join the elite of world football.

And moneywise, the national teams of countries like USA, Japan, Korea, India and China are performing much worse compared with how much money there are in their domestic leagues.

Genetically talented? Dude you are something else.

First you have to investigate why are there a surge of talents in said countries then draw a conclusion.

Brazil and Mexico are not as poor as you think. They have a huge amount of people living in precarious condition but I guarantee you they're richer than most European countries. They invest a lot in soccer and African countries can't have the luxury of doing that because... 3rd world problems.

Money in domestic league is not everything, ask England, where the most money flow in terms of soccer business.