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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread
by
Sithara007
on 17/08/2025, 02:45:07 UTC
I really don't understand why you guys think that Italy has a problem with the number of people: between 1982 and 2006 Italy have always been one of the best teams in the world, during those 24 years we won 2 World Cup and we lost the final against Brazil in 1994 and the Italian population was more or less the same. Do we have a demographic decline? Yes, but it doesn't happen overnight. In football, just like in life, there are cycles, for years we had many incredible players and now we don't, hopefully in the future things will change but the solution for sure is not bringing foreign people with the hope that someone will be a great football player, it doesn't make sense.

I wasn't saying that Italy need more migration. I was saying that rather than taking migrants from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa, they can prioritize the ones from Argentina and Brazil. Also, total population might have remained the same between 1980 and 2025, but the population by different age groups have changed drastically. Now those in the 50-60 age group constitute the most populous group. Younger generations are getting smaller with each passing year.