Quote from: Daniel91 on June 18, 2022, 01:18:18 PM

Quote from: Sithara007 on June 18, 2022, 11:36:56 AM

Quote from: Swordsoffreedom on June 18, 2022, 07:36:03 AM

If we look at the performance of Asian teams against European teams, it is easy to understand that Asian teams are very weak. They are far behind. While teams like Korea and Japan have been able to improve themselves somewhat, they are still much weaker than European or American teams. The European leagues are very advanced. We don't see any better league in Asia than that. More time is needed to improve football in Asia.

I don't think that it has to do anything with time. Football is very popular in both Japan and South Korea, and this has been the case for the past decades. I am not exactly sure why the Asian teams underperform at international level. Despite their huge population, China and India almost never qualifies for the World Cup. Asian players are in general shorter compared to the Europeans, and that maybe the reason. But in that case Brazil and Argentina should not perform so well. I strongly suspect that there is some other reason.

I think it's very difficult to look at Asia as one continent because the differences between nations in mentalities, economic development, popularity of football, are really huge.
Due to the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, large investments in football began in these 2 Asian countries and already at the 2002 World Cup South Korea was fourth in the world, which was a miraculous and unexpected result.
African or North American national teams are still waiting for such an achievement.
South Korea and Japan are still strong teams, dangerous to any team in the world.
Does anyone else remember the first half of the match between Japan and Belgium at the last World Cup in Russia. Belgium, which later knocked Brazil out of the competition and finished in third place, just happily continued the competition.
Other Asian national teams do not invest so much in the development of football, or football is not their most important team sport, and therefore do not achieve such results in major competitions.

indeed, it is very difficult for countries in Asia to gain success as South Korea did in the 2002 world cup, where it was the best world cup for Asian representatives in the 4th annual event, since the last 20 years Asian representatives have been very difficult to talk a lot in the world cup event they are often stuck in the group stage and can only qualify for the round of 16, we also know that the teams in the Asian continent are the weakest countries in the world cup event which is followed by 32 countries, the return of the host the world cup to the Asian continent can at least revive Asian football, at least they can qualify for the quarter-finals