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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread
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tiCeR
on 11/07/2025, 23:30:36 UTC
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.

It is growing and what is good about it is that we will see less of these boring games that end 8-0 in important games like the World Cup or the European Cup or in other continents. Those games are not fun for anyone, not for the players winning or losing it and not for the people watching those games.

Nevertheless I don't think that any of these smaller football countries will be able to win a title anytime soon. It can happen against all expectations of course, but under normal conditions it won't happen. They would need seven or eight top players playing in the top European leagues I think. Those top national teams have 20 top players in the biggest clubs of the world. Like Spain or Italy or England.

But I agree that progress is being made and everyone benefits from it.