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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 seeing in the world cup.
Out of all the African and Asian teams that participated in the last world cup, the only team you deemed fit for your reference is Qatar. Many of these underrated teams surprised many people. You forgot that Saudi Arabia defeated the current world champion and Tunisia won the second-best team France. Cameroon defeated Brazil and Morocco got to the semifinals with a local coach Walid Regragui.
Increasing the slots of nations in Africa and Asia will not increase the performance of these countries but it will have some positive effects. It will attract more sponsorship deals and endorsements which will increase the financial base of these nations. Participating in the world cup will also help these nations to raise money that can be used for sports infrastructure and other necessary development incentives. More players will be attracted to these nations because they qualified for the world cup. It is common to see players of African descent play for European teams because they have more chances of featuring in the world cup. Top-class coaches will also be attracted, which will improve the technical aspect of these countries' national teams.
I want to conclude by saying that increasing the slots of Africa and Asia in the world cup will not reduce the quality of the world cup rather it will make it exciting and unpredictable as we saw in Qatar.