[hkkinggg]

I mean why should host teams shouldnt play qualifying rounds just because they host the turnument? Think about, if they played the qualifying round and couldn't make it to the WC. How abou the team that was sopposed to go instead of the host team that imaginably didnt cualify?
I will finally say this!! To host a WC and participate in it as a team is totally different. Isn't it????

[RutgerB]

You really can't think of reasons why the host is automaticly qualified ?

[hkkinggg]

Originally posted by RutgerB
You really can't think of reasons why the host is automaticly qualified ?

I mean why play in a championship if you can not qualify for it? If you can qualify, then why not do it? What kind of right does a host have to play in it directly? What questions me the most is that lately, most of the hosts were not even in the previous ones. Wouldnt it be more fair to other teams who might have qualified instead of the host team, if they played the qualifying round?
Can you answer these questions before talking about the reasons, and I can think of many reasons but, none of the reasons that I CAN think of is the answer of the quastiones i had. If you know something that I dont know plase share it with me, or give me a good reason cus I need to know.

[Jay510]

Originally posted by hkkinggg
I mean why play in a championship if you can not qualify for it? If you can qualify, then why not do it? What kind of right does a host have to play in it directly? What questions me the most is that lately, most of the hosts were not even in the previous ones. Wouldnt it be more fair to other teams who might have qualified instead of the host team, if they played the qualifying round?
Can you answer these questions before talking about the reasons, and I can think of many reasons but, none of the reasons that I CAN think of is the answer of the quastiones i had. If you know something that I dont know plase share it with me, or give me a good reason cus I need to know.

**PERSONAL ATTACK DELETED -- SACHIN***.........Korea and Japan were in the previous cups.....USA, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, all were in their previous cups........France an exception but they won the world cup..........Please tell me when a host team didnt do well in the world cup........this disucssion is over, im recommending this thread to be erased because if lunacy

[Auriaprottu]

I'll try to help here.

It's really quite simple- the host nation needs to have a team in the competition for the purposes of maintaining local interest (and raking in local dollars) keep be maintained. Can you imagine a World Cup without the host team? A World Cup should consume everything else going on in a given nation for that month; it would be hard to do that without the host team.

[hkkinggg]

Originally posted by Jay510
.........Korea and Japan were in the previous cups.....USA, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, all were in their previous cups........France an exception but they won the world cup..........Please tell me when a host team didnt do well in the world cup........this disucssion is over, im recommending this thread to be erased because if lunacy

Well, I can be an idiot but you are not very bright either. I can see that you have a problem with what i said, since usa didn't qualify for the world cup before the one they hosted, as well as France. If they did well in the world cup, they can verywell qualify for it, or can they?

Originally posted by Auriaprottu
I'll try to help here.

It's really quite simple- the host nation needs to have a team in the competition for the purposes of maintaining local interest (and raking in local dollars) keep be maintained. Can you imagine a World Cup without the host team? A World Cup should consume everything else going on in a given nation for that month; it would be hard to do that without the host team.

Are you telling me that no one will watch the games from host country when their team is not playing???????????? No public team no attendence? How can soccer be the best sport in the world if they need a host team play in it directly to gather publick attention?? Their country deserving the hosting doesnt make their team deserve to be playing in it. I am not trying to go against host countries here. I am questionin whater it is fair or not to let a team who didnt win the last wc play in the next one without being have to qualify for it. Why they dont do the same with other sports such as basketball???

[Auriaprottu]

Originally posted by hkkinggg
...since usa didn't qualify for the world cup before the one they hosted

Uh, yes, they did. They were in Group A, with Italy, Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Are you telling me that no one will watch the games from host country when their team is not playing????????????

Some will watch/spend money, but not as many. The level of interest generated in a given country by having the local team present cannot be measured.

No public team no attendence? How can soccer be the best sport in the world if they need a host team play in it directly to gather publick attention??

Soccer would be the greatest sport in the world even if no one showed up to watch. The game on the field is what makes it great. But the income generated by local interest is the reason hosts get an automatic bid.

Their country deserving the hosting doesnt make their team deserve to be playing in it. I am not trying to go against host countries here. I am questionin whater it is fair or not to let a team who didnt win the last wc play in the next one without being have to qualify for it. Why they dont do the same with other sports such as basketball???

No one "hosts" the NBA playoffs. They're all in one nation. Same with the NFL. The question of "host" nations doesn't arise there. The Olympics is a multi-sport event, so the interest would be there regardless.

Bear in mind that there are people who earn their livelihood by deciding whether a nation could have a successful W/C without their NT being in it. Obviously, they concluded that it wouldn't work as well.

BTW, soccer doesn't need to emulate any other sport (least of all, baseball, hockey, American football or basketball) in any way.

[Chachi King]

Host teams are always good enough to make it into the World Cup. Why do you think that Australia, China, or Canada (two world class economic nations who definitely can put on a good international festival) haven't been awarded the Cup yet? Their teams aren't that good.

Korea qualified for 4 straight World Cups (5 overall)before 2002, and given the level of teams in Asia it was a sure bet they would have qualified again.

Japan, although it didn't even qualify before the 1997 decision, had a solid plan for 2002 - which worked - at that time. Their leaders started preparing for the World Cup some time in the 1980's, and they've made good on their longtime plans on the soccer pitch as well.

These are the two examples to which I'm thinking you're referring to. So, basically, countries that host the World Cup are good enough to play in them. You will not see Australia or Canada hosting until their team gets much better. I think China has a Japan-type plan for way into the future, so they'll get it when their time comes, but not anytime soon.

[Mc.Nitro3000]

well if the host dont get in the championship not many ppl will go 2 c the matches

[GoHawks4]

You guys all bit!