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Originally Posted by GirlySports
But european teams are hard to beat, I hear this all the time on here. There should be 25 European teams in a 32 team World Cup.
So beating three of them is not an easy route.
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It is if you technically tie two of them and need penalty kicks to win. Plus one of the two didn’t have to qualify, and was a host ranked in the 70s coming in.
Plus People say that about Europe and South America in comparison to Asia, Africa, and North/Central American teams...the federations whose teams rarely make it out of the round of 16 or into the knockouts at all.
Of the 14 finalists I’ve listed since 1990 they’ve only had to beat 6 teams outside of Europe or South America on their path to the finals - US and Nigeria in 94, US and South Korea in 02 (Germany in 02 had the easist path to the final ever), Australia in 06, Algeria in 14.
There can still be levels of easy in the quality of European and South American teams you have to beat on the way to the finals.