Quote from: Boristhecat on Today at 01:01:39 PM

Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 02:39:17 AM

There are a few teams missing out. Russia and Italy are missing from UEFA, Chile from CONMEBOL and Nigeria from the CAF. Unfortunately world cup only have 32 slots and one or two of the best teams miss out during qualification every time. Anyway, the chances will be lower for 2026 edition, as the number of participants is going up from 32 to 48. But the increase is mostly coming from AFC and CAF, so we may still witness a few of the good teams from Europe and South America failing to qualify for the main tournament.

I think it's better when a couple of strong teams miss the tournament due to the high level of competition than when the tournament turns into a huge number of meaningless games (due to a large difference in the teams' classes) and interesting games can only be expected in the 1/4 finals. Even in the current tournament, the group stage will not be very interesting, and in the next one everything will be much worse.

I think the world cup event will always be interesting even though sometimes the big teams or the top teams are absent at this moment, but there are still many other top teams that make the world cup event always interesting. The absence of one or two seeded teams does not mean that the world cup will be unattractive, because this is an event every four years and becomes a biennial event which will of course always be an event to look forward to. Because with an event like this there will also be a lot of talented players popping up although indeed, when we idolize a team that is not part of the world cup, then at least it will be boring but in the end we will still watch the game.