Europeans have magic too...

Brazil and Argentina have substatial GDPs compaired to African south asian nations.

Additionally Brazil while a little poorer has a GIANT talent pool to draw from and a large gini coefficent leading to there being plenty of "Upper level" people to set up and recruit the stars of tommorrow.

Argentina is similarly "blessed" when it comes to a large population.

Here is an easy way to put it.  Say there is some phenom at age 10-12 playing soccer in the street or in a local league... and he's showing potetial years ahead of where he should be.

In Countries like England, Brazil, Italy... they would be recruited and watched after given top notch coaching.

In Africa or poorer nations in asia he doesn't get this.  He has to work to survive most likely.

Atheletes now are bigger, stronger and faster then they've ever been.  It's not because they are more enthisaistc about the game.  It's because they're getting trained younger, getting supplements, doctors, nutritionists...

the kinds of things poorer nations can't afford or can on a smaller scale.

The problem is that pathetic teams from certain parts of the world are qualifying easily into World Cup due to politicall correctness and geographicall key of FIFA when the football powerhouses from Europe which represent much better levels of gameplay often have to stay at home due to murderous qulifications.

Also this could be said about African continent as well to a bit smaller extent.

Yeah, I knwo what you mean, it was a joke the thing I said. Other thing is culture too, there are countries in which people and children dedicate themselves to playing football more than other places and teams know they can find more talents in those places, thats why they search SA and dont search the US or asia as much for talents.

Dude Zlejedi

Calling teams from asia, africa an oceania pathetic is just wrong.

When comparing them to European teams they might look weak. When they are playing within their own competition its actually WAY more exciting than European football. I was watching the J league sometime ago and it was at a much fatser pace than the la liga etc.

Look at the progress these "pathetic" nations have made. Some of these countries just started getting leagues 20 years ago and they can compete with the worlds best. Korea beat Spain Italy in 2002, aUSTRALIA got unlucky vs Italy, usa beat spain, ghana beat czech republic, senegal beat france and their are probably many more results that i cannot think of right now.

Soccer really only started getting popular and developed in these nations about 30 years ago and they are sending teams to the world cup, and their players to top european leagues...

And those teams that have to got to a 2n round of qualification in UEFA liek Ireland would get beaten by teams like South Korea and Australia.

It wasn't Korea that beaten Spain and Italy, those teams in Korea/Japan World Cup lost to referee only.

And while it's cool they make progress they are playing on mundial so often because of geographicall key at sport level they would strugle to win european qualification groups so often.

But what if teams like Ireland, Russia, Croatia, Norway, Bosnia, Sweden etc got to the world cup. What would these teams accomplish? None of them including teams like Poland, Czech Republic, Scotland, Swiss, Turkey Greece are capable or winning a world cup with all that stiff competition from teh stronger nations.

The only teams I mentioned that have gone far in a tournament are Greece, Croatia an the Czechs. Even then, they wernt able to repeat there performances. They are capable of making the quarter finals at least and it would be better to have some asian or african even a concacaf nation make it to the quarter finals because they work harder to imrpove due to their lack of resources.

Also, those European countries are just content on staying theway they are. Ireland and Scotland for example have some class players playing in England yet they cant reahc teh World Cup. There is no hunger in them. When you see Korea, Ghana, Nigeria South Africa Japan play in teh World Cup they try extra hard to make thier country proud and give in 100 timesm ore effort. I really hope at leats 3 "pthetic" nations whip spain, italy and Germanys ass next year. Spain got it by USA, Italy almost got it by teh aussies and Germany needs a taste.

That's what I was going to say.  Especially Spain (Italy kind of did it to themselves, although the referee doomed them).  I still remember Vieri missing from 2 yards out with an open goal!

Lol but if teams like Spain and Italy are so superior, they should be able to beat Korea EASILY.
Barcelona did it to Chelsea kind of.

Very true.  Italy dominated Korea, scored, and then decided (in typical Italian fashion) that they could grind out 1-0, or maybe just sit back and counterattack for the rest of the match.  They missed easy chances, the refs made bad offside calls, Korea tied the match and then the referee ridiculously sent off Totti in extra time.

Spain also dominated Korea, scored a perfectly legitimate goal that was called back incorrectly for being out of bounds (the ball didn't even touch the line much less cross it, so this was a pretty bad call), had about 10 one-on-one breakaways called back for phantom offsides calls, and still the match went to penalties.

But by all means, even with the bad refereeing they still should have won, both teams were so far superior to Korea.