bigy
Well-Known Member
The next World Cup is going to have:
- 8 teams from Asia (5 in Qatar)
- 9 teams from Africa (5 in Qatar)
- 6 teams from North/Central America (4 in Qatar)
- 6 teams from South America (out of 10 entrants!! 4 in Qatar)
- 1 team from Oceania (0 in Qatar)
- 16 teams from Europe (13 in Qatar)
- 2 play off winners from Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America and two from North / Central America.
- potentially 7 out of 10 from South America qualifying. In Qatar only 2 from 4 made it out the group, and Peru lost a play off to Australia in qualification. That’s pretty poor and far too many spots.
- North / Central America getting 2 more spots plus potentially 2 from the play offs. WTF!!
- Oceania getting one guaranteed plus a play off - do they have any teams other than New Zealand?
- Africa / Asia fair enough - 3/6 from Asia made the knock out rounds and Africa has the depth with Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa etc missing out this time.
- Europe in my opinion should have got at least another couple of spots - or at the very least a couple of play off spots.
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