Ok missed that and thank you for clarification. Now two players playing for Manchester City and Roma is definitely fostering progress within the Uzbekistan team as a whole. While two players can't turn them into a World Cup title contender, you could see from Georgia how much impact some top players can have on the team. Mamardaschvili and Mikautadze improved Georgia's game so much that you can see two players can do something, but there are limits.
Exactly, that is the point: these new football nations are growing a lot, only 10 years ago nobody would have thought that a player from Uzbekistan would be paid 40 million euros. Georgia is another great example, back in the days they only Kaladze and a couple of decent strikers like Arveladze and Kobiashvili, now they have a few very good players and Kvaratskhelia, despite his young age, is already by far the greatest player they ever had. The goalkeeper, Mamardashvili, will shortly join Liverpool. This means the football movement is growing a lot in these countries.
Despite having too many controversies and corruption and other problems I am personally feeling FIFA is doing enough for soccer just because of this now in last few years many countries are able to increase their quality and now everyone is ready for having his best in soccer and want to play into FIFA World Cup even now just 48 countries allowed.
Russian stats are also able to bring their best talent in front of world while Russia is still facing sanctions and problems due to their polices even these are nonsense from few countries, but things are working, and they are on back foot due to their aggressive policies. Ukraine facing decline in quality and performance which is also negativity of conflict but Africa and Asia are surely doing good which is big success they needed to be keep consistency and performance on good level which will increase their revenue as well.