Quote from: red4slash on Today at 03:48:02 AM

Quote from: tiCeR on July 11, 2025, 11:30:36 PM

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.

Developments continue to occur, especially for countries that were previously not seen now can provide a different color such as several countries in Asia such as Japan and Korea, which are now very much more developed than before but indeed to compete and become champions still need a lot of time that they have to do for further development.
They are already very good but in the end some of the big countries in soccer since the old era in Europe and Latin America of course they also always develop over time.

So that in the end when there is a big competition such as the World Cup which is always used as a benchmark, countries with far more quality players always become benchmarks or superior champions because apart from mentally, they also have good soccer blood even though not all of them are always developing because sometimes there are some moments from those who struggle and even seem to decline in terms of performance.

I think we are seeing significant proliferation of the sport across the continents and as far as I know, some of the newer regulations ensure that World Cups will be carried out in all places of the world. I think that is one important step towards getting more people involved and give players from not so popular countries a strong incentive to put in the effort to become a great player and represent their country and their people. The stages today are huge.

Morocco is a great team that became so popular during the WC 2022 in Qatar. They fought like never before I think and made it to the game for third place, which is an impressive result for them. Nobody saw that coming and I remember watching their games because I enjoyed it.