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In fact, the previous world champions were only European national teams and Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina from South America.
The fact is that African and Asian football has progressed significantly in recent years, which can be seen in the examples of the success of South Korea in 2002 and Morocco last year, but the best football is still played in Europe and South America.
In recent years, very good football players have come from Africa, such as Salah and Mane, but the African national teams are not yet at the level of the best national teams in the world.
Therefore, the inclusion of additional teams from Asia, Africa and North America will definitely reduce the quality of the world cup.
I agree.
Just by increasing slots to African and Asian countries it won't miraculously make them better.
We saw that with Qatar, every game they played it was painfully obvious that they were not at the required level to be there.
I guess this will become a bit more common in the next world cup, where more countries will qualify that don't really have the level we are used to see in the world cup.