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You have a point, Saudi Arabia has a promising future with the rise, development through investments and improvements in its football infrastructure. There is no point in nations competing in every World Cup if they don't develop their football, this takes decades. There is a whole process of cultural adaptation, children need to grow up playing football as happens in brazil, which was once known as the country of football, exporting legends.
Here is indeed development, but it will be in vain when country has very adequate financial support for football but is unable to create new generation that is truly qualified.
Something different happened with Brazil, they lack everything there even if you look at the football infrastructure such as stadiums it is clearly far behind various big countries in Europe but Brazil is able to create their own advantages in producing quality players amidst limitations, even we all know Brazil is also country that has quite lot of mafia and various scandals in football.
It just that Brazil is still prima donna in the past, they have beautiful story for the World Cup competition.